plant about 3–4 in. high, with numerous erect 4-angled stems 3/4–1 in. (or more?) square, glabrous, green, slightly glaucous, branching at the base; sides flat below, grooved above; teeth very spreading, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, stout, conical, hardened at the acute tips; flowers in small clusters along the sides of the stems; pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 lin. (in fruit elongating to 1/2–1 in.) long, stout, glabrous; sepals 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corolla minutely papillate-tuberculate (or rarely with very minute hairs) at the base of the lobes on their inner surface and within the tube, elsewhere smooth and glabrous, not ciliate, rich blackish-purple or “very deep maroon” (Marloth), with the base of the tube and a zone at its middle white or whitish; tube 2 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam. at the mouth inside, campanulate or cup-shaped; lobes ascending-spreading, 5–7 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 lin. broad at the base, thence tapering to the acute apex, with reflexed or replicate margins; outer corona somewhat saucer-shaped at the base, with 5 pairs of minute acute teeth about 1/4 lin. long, with or without 5 other obtuse teeth (formed by the connection with the inner corona-lobes) alternating with them, yellowish, with purple tips to the teeth; inner corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, subtruncate or emarginate at the apex, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and shorter to longer than them, but not turned up at the tips, dorsally connected at the base to the very short cup of the outer corona, yellowish, more or less marked with purple-brown on the margins and dorsal projection; follicles very slightly diverging, 5 1/2–6 1/2 in. long, 1/4 in. thick, linear-terete, tapering at the base and into an acute apex, smooth, glabrous. null
