stem 1–1 1/4 ft. high, simple, scabrous; leaves erect, shortly petiolate, 3–5 in. long, 1–2 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, scabrous above and on the midrib beneath; umbel solitary, terminal, nodding, 3–5-flowered; peduncle 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, recurved at the apex, subscabrous; bracts not seen; pedicels 2/3–1 in. long, subscabrous; sepals 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; corolla probably subglobose and about 9–10 lin. in diam., but when dried often appearing broadly cup-shaped and 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. in diam., lobed to 2/3– 3/4 of the way down, coarsely pubescent outside, glabrous within, “yellowish-green, brownish outside at the base” (Baur), “purple and buff” (Bowker); tube 1/4 in. long; lobes 8–9 lin. long, 5–6 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse; corona-lobes spreading at the basal part then much incurved or incurved-erect, 5–7 lin. long, linear, often lanceolately dilated below the acute apex, with 2 keels extending to beyond the middle, rising at the base to the level of the top of the anther-wings (1 1/2–2 lin. high) and there wing-like and toothed on the inner margin; staminal column 4 1/2–5 lin. long, of which length the anther-appendages take up more than half, being 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate or subhastate-lanceolate when flattened out, subacute, replicate, much exceeding and loosely curved over the large excavated style-apex, which has a very thick crenate rim. null
