plant 1–1 1/2 ft. high, bushily branched, glabrous, greyish-green, tinted with purple; branches obtusely 4-angled, 5–7 lin. square, with very small teeth, about 1 lin. long, hard and brown at the tips, flowering along the grooves between the angles; flowers 1–3 together, successively developed; pedicels 1–1 3/4 lin. long, glabrous; sepals about 3/4 lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous; corolla rotate, without a distinct tube, lobed to 3/4 of the way down, 5–6 lin. in diam., glabrous and more or less mottled with purple-brown outside, pubescent and entirely dark purple-brown all over the inner face; united or disk part nearly flat; lobes about 2 lin. long and 1 1/3 lin. broad, deltoid-lanceolate, acute; outer corona shortly cupular and combined with the base of the inner corona-lobes, with 5 minute subrectangular bifid lobes about 1/4 lin. long, apparently erect, glabrous, blackish; inner corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, linear-oblong, emarginate, bifid, irregularly toothed or subtruncate at the apex, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and slightly exceeding them, dorsally produced at the base into a short horizontally spreading truncate or rounded ridge or crest, blackish. null
