stems erect or divaricate, 2–3 (or in cultivated plants sometimes up to 5) in. long, 2/3–1 in. thick, acutely 4–5-angled, glabrous, green, probably somewhat glaucous; angles compressed, with deltoid spreading teeth 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 1–2 together near the base of the young stems, successively developed; pedicels about 3/4 in. long, glabrous; sepals lanceolate, acute, glabrous; corolla in bud somewhat turbinate, with a broad pentagonal flattened top, shortly pointed at the centre, 5-toothed at the angles, glabrous, when expanded about 2 in. in diam.; tube very shortly campanulate, glabrous within, blackish-purple or dark blood-red at the bottom; limb very abruptly spreading from the tube, saucer-shaped, raised into a conspicuous (smooth?) broad ring around the mouth of the tube, with very acute deltoid lobes about 6–7 lin. long and broad, glabrous, but probably minutely papillate on the inner face, sulphur-yellow, covered to the tips of the lobes with small blood-red spots. null
