rootstock a cluster of long fleshy roots 1/3– 2/3 in. thick; stem up to 2 ft. long, twining, glabrous; leaves 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, acute, glabrous, apparently fleshy; peduncle 3–5 lin. long, 1–3-flowered, lateral at the nodes, glabrous; pedicels 1 1/2–3 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad at the base, subulate or almost setaceous, glabrous; corolla-tube straight or but slightly curved, 3/4–1 in. long, globose-inflated at the base (Burchell), but in dried specimens only very slightly inflated and about 2 1/2 lin. in diam. at the base, cylindric and 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. in diam. above, enlarging to 3 1/2 or 4 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous outside and within, minutely tuberculate on the veins inside the inflated part, apparently white, thickly spotted with violet-purple above the inflation, which is apparently striate with purple; lobes 7–10 lin. long, erect, twisted together at the upper part, connate at the tips, very narrowly linear from a deltoid base, replicate, with a rather broad wing-like keel down the lower half of the inner face, glabrous, not ciliate, dark purple-brown, the keel apparently white; outer corona cup-shaped, with 5 erect linear lobes 2/3–1 lin. long, divided to below the middle into 2 linear obtuse parallel segments, hairy; inner corona-lobes 3/4 lin. long, exceeding the outer corona, linear, connivent-erect over the staminal column, glabrous. null
