stem climbing, fleshy, 1 1/2–2 lin. thick, glabrous; leaves small, fleshy, flat, 1/4– 2/3 in. long, 1/8– 1/4 in. broad (see note below), ovate or ovate-anceolate, acuminate; cymes 1–2-flowered, lateral at the nodes; peduncles 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, glabrous; bracts 1–2 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 5–7 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 5lin. (2 1/2 lin., Schlechter) long, subulate, glabrous; corolla abruptly bent at a right-angle near the base; tube (following the bend) about 1 1/3 in. long according to a drawing, or about 1 in. long in dried flowers, globosely inflated at the base, cylindric above, enlarging according to a drawing to about 3/4 in. in diam. at the mouth, pinkish-white or greenish tinted, spotted with violaceous, glabrous outside, pilose with very fine long hairs within; lobes free at the base, abruptly inflexed over the mouth of the tube and produced beneath into broad triangular partition-like green plates or keels, meeting at the centre and connate into a slender erect column 5–7 lin. long, then again becoming free and expanding into elliptic-lanceolate replicate segments connate at the tips, forming a small apical ellipsoid cage-like body 2 1/2–3 lin. long, ciliate on the margins, dull purple or purple-brown; corona in the flowers seen much eaten by insects, but apparently the outer corona is cupular, with 5 acutely bifid lobes rising to the level of the top of the staminal column, ciliate and hairy within with long fine hairs; inner corona-lobes 1 lin. long, linear or linear-spathulate, connivent-erect over the staminal column, with very revolute tips. null
