tuber 3–4 in. in diam., flattened; stem long, slender, twining, glabrous; leaves more or less reflexed, 3/4–2 in. long, 1/2–1 lin. broad and nearly as thick as broad, fleshy, subsessile, linear-subterete, channelled down the face, glabrous; cymes sessile or very shortly pedunculate, lateral at the nodes, 6–10 (or more?)-flowered, the flowers developing successively; peduncles 0– 1/4 in. long, glabrous; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long, glabrous; sepals 1 lin. long, subulate, glabrous; corolla-tube 1/2– 2/3 in. long, slightly curved or nearly straight, ovoid-inflated and 1/8 in. in diam. at the base, narrowed to 2/3 lin. in diam. and cylindric above, about 1 lin. in diam. at the mouth, glabrous outside, inside with deflexed white hairs in the slender part and some spreading fleshy subulate processes with purple tips in the inflated part; lobes with their basal part 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, linear-lanceolate or oblong-linear, ascending-spreading, abruptly tapering into very fine hair-like points 1 1/2 lin. long, which are horizontally inflexed and connate at their tips, green, covered on the inner face of the lower part with short adpressed retrorse white hairs; before expansion the hair-points form a fine needle-like point to the bud; outer corona 1/3 lin. long, rising to the level of the top of the staminal column, cup-like, pentagonal, with very rounded angles, entire, truncate, glabrous, white; inner corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, linear or linear-spathulate, incumbent on the backs of the anthers at the base, then connivent-erect in a column, dorsally connected to the outer corona at the base, glabrous, white. null
