stems tufted, decumbent, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick, oblong, 4–5-angled, glabrous, dull green; angles rounded, with very spreading or slightly recurving very acute teeth 2–2 1/2 lin. long, having a minute tooth on each side at the middle; flowers 4–8 or more together, successively developed at the middle or towards the base of the young shoots; pedicels 1/2– 2/3 in. long, rather slender, glabrous; sepals 1–1 1/4 lin. long, deltoid-subulate, acute, glabrous; corolla 7–10 lin. in diam., with the sinuses reflexed to the pedicel; lobes 2 1/2–3 3/4 lin. long, replicate to the base into vertical plates 1 1/4–1 1/3 lin. deep at the base, very spreading, very acute, apparently olive-brown or purple-brown, perhaps indistinctly mottled(?), glabrous, with an exceedingly minute ciliation on the basal part; annulus 2 1/2–3 1/4 lin. in diam., obscurely pentagonal, with its sides sloping underneath it (not vertical), and the rim rising considerably above the margin of the outer corona so as to form a sort of basin containing the corona, minutely puberulous, whitish, very distinctly spotted all over with purple-brown; outer corona 1 1/2 lin. in diam., obtusely pentagonal, apparently yellow; inner corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, ovoid, dorsally obtuse, apparently yellowish. null
