Rootstock producing cluster of fleshy, cylindric or fusiform roots. Stem annual, somewhat succulent, twining or rambling up to 2 m or more, sparsely branched. Leaves slightly fleshy; petiole about 10 mm long; blade more or less oblong, apiculate, glaÂbrous; margin sometimes ciliolate and undulate. Flowers 3-6, in cymes lateral at nodes, subumbellate, developing successively; peduncles up to about 40 mm long; pedicels up to 12 mm long. Sepals subulate, 3-4 mm long. Corolla 25-35 mm long; tube globose-inflated at base, upcurved abruptly above inflation, cylindric, then dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth, white at base, purple-spotted above on light green inflation and sulphur-yellow mouth, pubescent within base and towards mouth; lobes 10-20 mm long, connivent-erect, connate at tips, broadly deltoid below to linear-spathulate in upper half, replicate, purplish-veined. Corona with cup-shaped base; outer lobes ±1,5 mm long, bilobuled to middle, dark purple with long white hairs on inner side; inner lobes 3 mm long, incumbent-
