stems erect or ascending 1–2 1/2 in. long, acutely 4-angled, 1/2– 3/4 in. square, green, purple-tinted at the tips; teeth deltoid, acute, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 1–2 together, near the base of the young stems; pedicels 2–3 lin. (up to 1/2 in., Schlechter) long; sepals 1/4 in. (1/8 in., Schlechter) long, subulate from an ovate base; corolla campanulate, with the tube widening upwards and gradually passing into the spreading lobes, scarcely 1 in. in diam. (about 2/3 in. long and nearly 1/2 in. in diam., verrucose and brownish within, paler outside, Schlechter), very minutely asperate and brownish-purple outside, covered inside from the middle of the tube nearly to the tips of the lobes with short stiff compressed-conical obtuse processes, dull yellow, covered with very crowded narrow broken transverse lines and spots of dull brownish-crimson, and entirely of that colour at the base of the tube, but darker; tube 1/3 in. long; lobes 1/4 in. long and rather more in breadth at the base, broadly deltoid, very acute; outer corona-lobes about 3/4 lin. long and broad, subquadrate, subtruncate at the apex, black, with a velvet-like surface; inner corona-lobes 1–1 1/4 lin. long, connivent-erect with diverging tips, much exceeding the anthers, linear-subulate, thickened and knob-like at the minutely scabrous apex, with a transverse ridge at the base, dull purplish-red, brownish at the tips. null
