stem twining, apparently growing from a few inches up to 2 ft. high, fleshy and as much as 1/4 in. thick at the base, tapering upwards, glabrous; lower leaves 2–4 in. long, the upper smaller, thick and fleshy, subsessile, 2–4 1/2 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, channelled down the face, glabrous; cymes lateral at the upper nodes, pedunculate, about 3–5-flowered, glabrous in all parts except inside the corolla; peduncle 2–4 lin. long, stout; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; sepals 2–2 1/4 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate; corolla of dried flowers 1 1/3–1 7/8 in. long; tube 1–1 1/3 in. long, straight, with an ellipsoid or subobovoid inflation 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam. at the base, contracted to 2–2 1/2 lin. in diam. above and gradually dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth 4–5 lin. in diam., glabrous and whitish with dark purple-brown spots and lines outside, inside pilose with long fine curly hairs from the top of the inflated part to the mouth; lobes 4–6 lin. long, connivent-erect, connate at the tips, narrowly lanceolate, replicate and 1 1/2–2 lin. broad viewed sideways, glabrous and whitish spotted with purple on the back, the inner face closely reticulated with dark purple-brown on a cream-coloured or yellowish ground, or in dried flowers often appearing entirely purple-brown, sparsely covered with long purple hairs on the basal part and ciliate with them on the keel to the middle or beyond; outer corona cup-shaped 3/4–1 1/4 lin. deep, with 5 large erect lobes, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long and 1/2–1 lin. broad, truncate, very broadly rounded or notched at the top, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, linear, connivent, shortly exceeding the anthers, but scarcely rising to the level of the outer corona, and dorsally connected at the base to the latter by vertical partitions, glabrous. null
