branches decumbent 2–3 in. long, unifariously puberulous; leaves 2–5 lin. long, those at the base sometimes ovate or lanceolate, the others usually linear-hastate with a short acute spreading tooth on each side at the base, or without them and linear, acute, cuneately narrowed into a very short petiole, glabrous, often irregularly ciliate with a few hairs; umbels pedunculate, 3–6-flowered; peduncles 2–8 lin. long; bracts 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, acute; pedicels 2–3 lin. long, puberulous on one side; sepals about 3/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, ovate, obtusely pointed or subacute, glabrous; corolla-lobes about 1 1/2 lin. long and 3/4 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, apparently slightly twisted, glabrous on both sides; corona-lobes of the outer and middle series 3/4–1 lin. long, rising to about the level of the top of the style; outer series entire, 1/4 lin. broad, linear, obtuse, with a gibbosity or thickening on the inner face at the top; middle series divided nearly to the base into 3 linear segments about 1/6 lin. broad, with the middle one obtuse, having a gibbosity on the inner face at the middle, and the lateral acute or obtuse, with a small but distinct inflexed auricle or tooth on the outer margin near the base; inner series about 1/2 lin. long, 1/5 lin. broad, oblong-linear, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, scarcely exceeding the anther-appendages; style exserted 1/3 lin. beyond the anther-appendages, about 1/4 lin. thick, oblong, obtuse, apparently pentagonal. null
