plant densely tufted; stems 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 2/3 in. in diam., erect or ascending, subglobose when young, becoming ovoid or cylindric, densely covered with conical recurved bristle-pointed tubercles 1 1/2–2 lin. long, in 20–24 vertical or spiral series, glabrous, green, or dull purplish where exposed to the sun; flowers 1–3 together near the base of the young stems, successively developed; pedicels 1 1/2–2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 2–3 lin. long, 2/3–1 lin. broad, ovate-anceolate at the base, attenuate into filiform recurving tips, glabrous; corolla 1–1 1/4 in. in diam.; tube campanulate, about 1/3 in. long and as much in diam. outside; lobes abruptly and horizontally spreading from the tube, recurved, 5–6 lin. long, 3–3 1/2 lin. broad at the base, whence they gradually taper to a fine acuminate point, glabrous outside; inner surface covered on the lobes and in the throat of the tube with small fleshy terete obtuse erect processes 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, smooth in the lower part of the tube, pale yellow, becoming pinkish-cream in the tube, covered with small crimson spots and the tips of the processes also crimson; outer corona 5-lobed, black or purple-black; lobes about 3/4 lin. long and broad, subquadrate or oblong, very shortly and obtusely bifid to acutely bifid to the middle, when the whole appears to consist of 5 pairs of small deltoid teeth; inner corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, connivent-erect, with very slightly spreading tips, dorsally flattened, linear, slightly humped at the base, minutely papillate at the obtuse slightly thickened apex, dark purple-brown; staminal column about 1 1/4 lin. long. null
