tuber somewhat carrot-like; stems 1–2 to a tuber, erect, 4–12 in. long, leafy, glabrous with 2 pubescent lines, or pubescent all round; leaves numerous, opposite, 2–4 1/2 in. long, 3/4–3 lin. broad, linear, acute, erect or ascending, revolute along the margins, varying from glabrous to pubescent on one or both sides; umbels 1–5 to a stem, usually subcorymbose at its summit, occasionally spaced along the upper part, pedunculate, hemispherical, 20–30-flowered, involucrate with several linear-subulate spreading or reflexed bracts 2–2 1/2 lin. long; peduncles 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, pubescent; pedicels 4–5 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 1 lin. long, nearly 1/2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent, reflexed; corolla entirely reflexed, slightly pubescent on the back, glabrous within, yellowish-green; lobes 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, subacute; corona-lobes arising about 1/4 lin. above the base of the staminal column, and only reaching to about its middle, 3/4 lin. long, ovoid, acute, entire or bifid, thick and fleshy, erect, laterally sessile, with the apical part free and applied to the basal part of the anthers; staminal column 1 1/2 lin. long; filament part short, cylindric; anther part somewhat barrel-shaped; anthers erect, rhomboid; their appendages small, elliptic-ovate, acute, inflexed over the apex of the style, and their wings very broadly triangular, very prominent and minutely notched at the middle, narrowing towards the base and apex; style-apex small, pentagonal, excavated; follicle solitary, erect, 3–3 1/2 in. long, about 5 lin. thick, fusiform, tapering into a beak, smooth, thinly and minutely puberulous; seeds 2 1/2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, broadly ovate, flat with a broad, plicately wrinkled margin, and minutely papillate on the disk. null