stems 3–4 in. high, 2/3– 3/4 in. thick, cylindric, 10–12-angled, deep green or tinged with purplish; angles with very short closely set tubercles, each terminated by 3 white bristles; central bristle horizontal, the two lateral rather shorter, deflexed and diverging from each other at nearly a right angle; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long, glabrous; sepals 3–3 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corolla outside smooth, pale greenish or greenish-white, spotted with purple-red; inside densely papillate, pale yellowish, covered with small (mostly linear in the tube) purple-red spots, except at the base, which is entirely purple-red; tube 1 1/2–2 in. long, about 1 in. in diam. at the mouth; lobes spreading, 1/2– 3/4 in. long and about as broad, deltoid, acuminate; outer corona 4 1/2–5 lin. long, shortly tubular at the base, divided into 10 filiform segments terminating in pendulous globose knobs, the filiform parts and knobs purple-brown, the lower part white, with the margins, some broad stripes alternating with each pair of filaments and a few linear spots all dark purple-brown; inner corona-lobes 3/4 lin. long, linear, incumbent upon the backs of the anthers, which they slightly exceed, dorsally connected to the outer corona by short partitions, purple-brown. null
