tufted; stems erect, 3/4–2 in. long, 1/3– 3/4 in. thick, excluding the teeth, sharply 4–5-angled, glabrous, light green, sometimes tinted with purple, scarcely glaucous; flowers 1–3 together at the lower part of the young stems, opening succes-sively; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 3/4 lin. thick, glabrous; sepals about 1/3 in. long, subulate from an ovate base, glabrous; corolla campanulate, prominently 20-nerved on the glabrous smooth outside, inside (except at the base) covered with short stiff conical processes, decreasing in size towards the tips of the lobes, creamy yellow, spotted with purple, the spots becoming very crowded and darker purple at the middle part of the tube (Pillans), basal part smooth and whitish, with transverse dark purple (or blood-red?) lines, the processes tipped with dark purple; tube 3/4– 7/8 in. long, 3/4 in. in diam. at the mouth; lobes about 5 lin. long and broad, erectly spreading in a continuous line with the tube, deltoid, very acute, the alternating teeth at the sinuses very prominent; outer corona 5-lobed, blackish-purple; lobes about 3/4 lin. long, ovate, obtuse at the shortly bifid apex; inner corona-lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, subterete, erect, connivent at the middle, with recurving slightly clavate obtuse tips, apparently blackish-purple or dark purple-brown. null
