stems prostrate, creeping, with fibrous roots at the nodes, fleshy, 1/8 in. or more (about 1 lin. when dried) thick; leaves thick, fleshy, glabrous; petiole 2–4 lin. long; blade 2/3–1 3/4 in. long, 1/2–1 1/2 in. broad, ovate, elliptic or orbicular, acute or obtuse and apiculate, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base; peduncles obsolete or up to 1/4 in. long, 1 lin. thick, 1–2-flowered; bracts minute; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long, 3/4 lin. thick, glabrous; sepals 1/4– 1/3 in. long, linear-subulate, glabrous; corolla-tube curved (often straight in dried specimens), 1 1/2–2 in. long, cylindrically or oblong-inflated for 1/2– 2/3 in. and 2 1/2–3 lin. in diameter at the base, 1–1 1/2 lin. in diam. above and dilated to 1/2 in. or more in diam. at the funnel-shaped mouth, outside glabrous, pale greenish below, whitish above, dotted or spotted with dark purple, inside pilose with white hairs at the base and upper part, glabrous elsewhere; lobes 3/4–1 1/8 in. long, connivent-erect, connate at the tips, linear from a 4–5 lin.-broad (when flattened out) deltoid base, closely replicate so as to form pocket-like openings between them, keeled down the inner face, purple-brown crossed by a broad transverse white band at the base, above passing into bright green or first into blackish-green and then to bright green, thinly hairy on the inner face below and ciliate to nearly half-way up with fine soft spreading hairs, glabrous above, but ciliate with long vibratile clavate purple hairs; outer corona 1/4 lin. long, shorter than the staminal column, obtusely pentagonal or 5-lobed seen from above, pale yellowish-green; lobes pouch-like, shortly bifid, truncate or broadly rounded, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 1 1/3 lin. long, sublinear or linear-spathulate, acute or obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the anthers at the base, then erect in a column, glabrous, pale yellowish-green. null
