stem 3–11 in. high, erect, simple, stout, bifariously puberulous, at least on the upper part; leaves in 6–8 pairs, coriaceous, very slightly fleshy, thick and rigid when dry; petiole 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, spreading or upcurved, stout, flattened and puberulous above; blade 2–5 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad, ascending, sometimes almost making a bend at its junction with the petiole, elongated-oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtuse and apiculate at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, flat or very slightly undulated, but not at all crisped on the margins, glabrous or slightly puberulous on the very stout midrib beneath; umbels 3–5, lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 3–7-flowered; peduncles 2 1/2–8 lin. long, puberulous on one side; bracts 1 1/4–3 lin. long, linear-subulate or lanceolate, slightly pubescent; pedicels 3–5 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous; sepals ascending and nearly equalling the corolla, 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, 3/4–1 1/3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly pubescent or almost glabrous on the back; corolla subglobose or globose-campanulate, about 5 lin. in diam., obtusely 5-angled, lobed to 2/3 of the way down, glabrous, dull purple-brown or violaceous outside, dull green within; tube 1 1/2 lin. long, subhemispherical; lobes 3–4 lin. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, subacaute, erect, closely contiguous and concave at the lower part, recurved or revolute and convex at the tips; corona-lobes fleshy, 1 1/4–1 1/3 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, broadly cuneate, truncate or rounded at the apex, adnate to the corolla up to the sinuses, spreading, closely contiguous, forming a short pentagonal truncate cup, with 5 rather stout keels, formed by the inflexed contiguous margins of the lobes composing it, white; in some flowers, between the subcontiguous margins of each pair of lobes, is an exceedingly narrow lobule channelled down its middle and also adnate to the corolla-tube; staminal column 2–2 1/4 lin. long, conical; anther-appendages 1 lin. long, ovate, oblong or more or less pandurate, acute or subobtuse, erect and applied to the sides of the stout conical style-apex; anther-wings somewhat hatchet-shaped, about half as broad just below the apex as they are at the hooked angular base, rounded on their outer margin; style-apex projecting 1/3–1 lin. beyond the anther-appendages, shortly bifid; follicles not seen. null
