tuber depressed, up to 1 3/4 in. in diam.; stems several (?), branching, about 2 in. high, slender, puberulous, laxly leafy; leaves erectly spreading, not fully developed at the time of flowering, subsessile, up to 7 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, subglabrous; flowers few together in fascicles at the nodes; pedicels 2 lin. long, filiform, puberulous; sepals scarcely 1 1/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous; corolla 2 1/2 lin. long, lobed to 2/3 of the way down, entirely glabrous, yellowish; lobes free, spreading, long-acuminate from an ovate base; corona-lobes connate high up, 3-lobed, with the lateral lobes minute, ciliate, and the middle lobe larger, ligulate, obtuse, incurved, glabrous. null