stems 2–3 in. high, 4–5 lin. in diam. without the teeth, 5-angled? green; angles compressed, with stout conical acute spreading teeth 2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 2 (or more?) together near the base of the young stems, successively developed; pedicels 6–7 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 3–4 lin. long, spreading, subulate-acuminate from an ovate-lanceolate base, glabrous; corolla 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. in diam., puberulous on the lobes within, elsewhere glabrous; tube very shortly campanulate, constricted and about 1/4 in. in diam. at the mouth; limb slightly saucer-shaped very abruptly spreading from the tube, raised around its mouth into a broad thick convex ring; lobes about 5 lin. long and 1/2 in. broad at the base, deltoid, very acute; inner surface sulphur-yellow or pale greenish-yellow, marked with transverse purple-brown broken bands which pass into spots upon the smooth shining annulus, and in the only dried flower seen are very evident on the back of the lobes; outer corona 5-lobed; lobes contiguous, 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, 1 1/3 lin. broad, transversely oblong, subtruncate with a notch at the middle; inner corona-lobes scarcely 1/2 lin. long, deltoid-lanceolate, acute, with a dorsal transverse ridge at the base, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and not produced beyond them. null
