stems decumbent and ascending, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. thick, exclusive of the teeth, obtusely 4-angled, with stout conical acute teeth 2–3 lin. long, glabrous, green, mottled with purple; flowers subsolitary from near the base or middle of the stems; pedicels 6–8 lin. long, erect, glabrous; sepals about 1/4 in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; corolla about 3 in. in diam., smooth and glabrous outside, densely papillate-rugose on the innerface, according to Thunberg and Masson, greyish, with the tips of the papillæ reddish, but according to Masson's figure, pale yellowish with a greyish ring around the mouth of the tube, minutely dotted with red; tube campanulate, apparently slightly raised at its mouth around the very thick recurved papillate-rugose rim of the inner tube, which is densely covered with stiff purple hairs at the base around and under the corona; lobes about 1 in. long, 2/3– 3/4 in. broad, spreading, ovate, acute, ciliate from base to apex with clavate vibratile white hairs; outer corona-lobes arising above the base of the staminal column, connate at the base, somewhat spreading, with the free part 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, transverse or subquadrate, very obtusely or subacutely bifid, glabrous, apparently yellowish dotted with purple-brown; inner corona-lobes incumbent on the backs of the anthers, about 3/4 lin. long, thick, ovate, acute, or acuminate with the tips produced into a very short erect point, apparently yellowish, dotted and marked with purple-brown. null
