stems and branches fleshy, up to 1/2 in. thick, cylindric, tuberculate, jointed, decumbent or trailing, often tapering towards the flowering ends, which become rather slender and sometimes twine around other plants, glabrous, dull green, with darker mottling, often tinged with purplish; leaves rudimentary, seated on the tubercles, 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long, cordate-ovate or deltoid, acute, with minute globular stipules at their base, glabrous; cymes usually scattered along the tapering slender ends of the branches, pedunculate, successively developing 1 to several flowers; peduncles 1–9 lin. long, glabrous; pedicels 3–5 lin. long, glabrous; sepals about 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; corolla-tube 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, ovoid-inflated and 1/4 in. in diam. at the base, tapering into the cylindric 1/8 in. in diam. part above, and dilated to 2/3– 3/4 in. across the funnel-shaped mouth, glabrous outside, pubescent inside at the mouth and basal part with white curly hairs, pale greenish-white, spotted with violet at the base and upper part; lobes free, recurved-spreading, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, linear from a deltoid base, acute, replicate, pubescent on the lower part of the inner surface, white, with the margins and apical part violet-purple or dark purple-brown; outer corona about 1 lin. high and slightly exceeding the staminal column, cup-like with 5 pairs of short erect acute teeth, pubescent inside and ciliate all round the margin with rather long hairs, alternately marked with broad yellow and dark purple-brown stripes; inner corona-lobes 1 1/2 lin. (or more?) long, incumbent on the backs of the anthers at the base, then connivent into an erect column with shortly recurved tips, dorsally connected to the outer corona at the base, glabrous, yellow, with a dark purple-brown stripe down the middle of the basal part. null
