stem 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high, usually solitary, simple or branching, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. thick, pubescent; internodes 1/4–2 1/3 in. long; leaves usually spreading; petiole 1/2–3 lin. long; blade 1/2–2 in. long, 1/12–1 1/4 in. broad, usually oblong, deltoid-ovate, or deltoid-oblong to roundish-ovate, rarely linear-hastate, acute or obtuse, often apiculate, cordate, subtruncate or more or less hastate at the base, with rounded auricles, flat or narrowly revolute along the margins, more or less pubescent or scaberulous on both sides or only on the veins beneath; umbels usually 3–6 to a stem or branch, pedunculate, the lower racemose, the upper subcorymbose, 4–12-flowered; peduncles 5–15 lin. long, pubescent or subtomentose; bracts filiform, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 3–5 lin. long, pubescent or subtomentose; sepals 1–1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute, pubescent; corolla in bud globose with an apical depression; lobes 2–3 lin. long, 1 1/4–1 2/3 lin. broad, oblong, subacute, more or less replicate, spreading, with incurved tips, glabrous or with a few hairs near the apex on the back, more or less minutely puberulous at the base on the inner face, greenish according to collectors, in the dried state olive-brown with darker veins, rarely entirely green; corona-lobes ascending-spreading, or often appearing erect in dried flowers, 1/2–1 lin. long, 2/3–1 1/4 lin. broad, broadly cuneate-obovate, cuneately subquadrate or suborbicular, rounded, subtruncate or obtusely pointed at the entire or notched apex, rarely more or less deeply 2-lobed, often with slightly projecting side angles above the middle or at the top, with a divided or entire appendage decurrent in 2 contiguous keels, which are not always obvious, on the inner face, white or whitish; appendage arising near the top of the lobe, 1/2–1 lin. long, usually deeply bifid or divided to the base into 2 straight subulate contiguous segments, rarely entire, or with a third smaller segment behind, ascending to or slightly exceeding the top of the 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long staminal column; anther-wings broadest at the subtruncate base; anther-appendages reniform, erect, reaching to or slightly inflexed over the margin of the broad depressed-truncate style-apex; caudicles attached near or above the middle of the oblong pollen-masses; follicles about 2 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. thick, fusiform-lanceolate, tapering into a beak, pubescent and beset with subulate processes 2–2 1/2 lin. long. null
