plant 6–8 in. high in the specimens seen (12–15 in., Barkly), bushily branched; branches 1–1 1/2 in. thick, with 12–15 tuberculate angles, glabrous, green, somewhat glaucous; tubercles tipped with a slender pale brown spine 3 1/2–5 lin. long; flowers 1–2 together, glabrous in all parts; pedicels 1/4– 1/2 in. long; sepals 2–2 1/2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; corolla in bud hemispheric at the basal part, 5-winged above, truncate, with a short central point, when expanded 2 1/2–3 in. in diam., cup-shaped, about 1 in. deep, subtruncate at the margin with 5 subulate or awn-like points 1 1/2–3 lin. long, glabrous, smooth, not papillate on the central part, light yellow or pale buff, sometimes tinged with pinkish or very pale purple; tube obsolete, represented by a slight depression from which the blackish corona is exserted or its margin resting upon the rim, when dried contained in a very small cup; outer corona 1 3/4–2 lin. in diam., cupular, 5-lobed; lobes 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad, transverse, emarginate; inner corona-lobes 2/5 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, dorsally connected to the inflexed sinuses of the outer corona; follicles 4–5 in. long, 4–5 lin. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering to a beak, glabrous, smooth; seeds 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, ovate, flat, with a slightly thickened margin, glabrous, smooth, light brown. null
