whole plant including the tuber 3 1/2–4 1/2 in. high; tuber depressed-subglobose, about 2 in. in diam.; stems several or perhaps numerous, clustered, erect, simple or branched near the base, glabrous, about half their length buried in the ground in the specimen seen; leaves suberect or ascending, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, at the time of flowering 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 2–3 lin. broad, probably afterwards enlarging, lanceolate, very acute, cuneately narrowed at the base, wavy and crisped at the margins, sparsely ciliolate, glabrous on both sides, apparently somewhat fleshy; flowers in clusters of 4–6 at the nodes; pedicels erect, 4–7 lin. long, slender, glabrous; sepals nearly 1 lin. long, 2/5 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corolla very slightly curved; tube 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. in diam. at the ellipsoid-inflated base, cylindric above and about 1 lin. in diam., not enlarged at the mouth, glabrous outside, very sparsely hairy at the middle part and having a few very short cylindric processes on the inflated part within, apparently whitish or yellowish, dotted with dark violet-purple on the upper part, the spots becoming more crowded below and perhaps confluent on the inflated part; lobes about 3 1/2 lin. long, linear, scarcely dilated at the base, erect, slightly curved, connate at the tips, glabrous, apparently purplish tinted (flowers wine-red, Conrath); outer corona forming 5 small truncate pockets less than 1/4 lin. deep alternating with the anthers, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, linear-spathulate, obtuse, connivent-erect, dorsally adnate to the outer corona at the base, glabrous. null
