3/4–1 1/4 ft. high; stems often solitary, simple or with 1 branch at the base, stout, more or less scabrous; leaves shortly petiolate, 2–4 1/2 in long, 1/3–1 1/2 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or elongate-ovate acute to subobtuse, broadly cuneate to subtruncate at the base rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above or more or less scabrous on both sides, very scabrous and often wavy on the margins; umbels 2–4 and subcorymbose or solitary and terminal, pedunculate, 2–6 flowered; peduncles 1/2–2 in. long, scabrous-pubescent; bracts 3–\ill\ lin. long, subulate; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long; sepals 4 1/2–7 lin. long 2–3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, and together with the pedicels and bracts scabrous-pubescent; corolla-lobes suberect, forming a cup, recurved at the tips, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 3 1/2–5 lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous on both sides or more or less scabrous-pubescent on the back at the tips, white, purple-tinted at the tips on the back; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, erect or slightly incurving upwards, white or pale lemon-yellow with a violet-purple stripe down the inner face; upper half elliptic-lanceolate or dilated into a rather large concave hood, obtuse or acute at the incurved apex, basal half linear-oblong, bearing 2 contiguous fleshy deltoid erect acute teeth not reaching to the top of the 2 1/2–3 lin.-long staminal column; anther-appendages broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, inflexed on the top of the style-apex, which is truncate with a central star-like depression; follicles solitary, 3–4 1/2 in. long, 1 in. thick, lanceolate or fusiform, obtusely-pointed, 6-winged, glabrous; seeds 2 1/2 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. broad, narrowly ovate or ovate-oblong, thick, with the margins much incurved, forming a rather deep channel on one side, very convex on the other, covered on both sides with minute raised tubercles and lines, dark brown. null
