stems not seen, “almost cylindrical, same colour as the flowers” (Pillans), probably similar to those of P. comptus or P. geminatus; pedicels 1/4– 1/2 in. long, glabrous; sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, recurved at the tips, glabrous; corolla rotate, without a distinct tube, 9–10 lin. in expanse; lobes 1/3 in. long, 1 3/4 lin. broad at the base, lanceolate, acuminate, convex from the margins being slightly recurved, glabrous on the back, velvety-puberulous on the inner face, not ciliate, “pale pinkish-purple, finely marked with transverse pale yellow lines” (Pillans); corona-lobes 3/4 lin. long, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and shortly exceeding them, with the tips very slightly turned up, yellow, without markings, lanceolate or linear-oblong, entire or more or less distinctly 3-toothed at the apex, with the middle tooth much the longest and acute, dorsally produced at the base into a subquadrate crest, truncate and distinctly toothed at the top. null
