stem 2/3–2 1/3 ft. high, simple, 1–1 1/2 lin. thick, more or less compressed, puberulous with curved hairs; internodes 1/2–3 1/2 in. long; leaves shortly petiolate, 3/4–2 in. long, 1/12–1 1/4 in. broad, linear, linear-oblong or oblong to roundish-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, or (when linear) acute at the apex, often apiculate, truncate, cordate or hastate at the base, with obtuse or rounded auricles, subscabrous or thinly sprinkled with minute hairs all over or towards the revolute margins of the upper surface and on the veins beneath; petiole 1–2 1/2 lin. long; umbels 3–7, racemose or the upper subcorymbose, 3–7-flowered; peduncles 1/2–1 3/4 in. long, pubescent or subtomentose on one side; bracts 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, filiform, puberulous; pedicels 3–5 lin. long, pubescent or subtomentose; sepals 1 2/3–2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous; corolla-lobes campanulately spreading or suberect, slightly concave, 3–4 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 1/4 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, apparently greenish or yellowish with purple-brown or blackish-purple veins or spots, or occasionally without markings, often drying brown or blackish-purple, quite glabrous; corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 1/2–1 lin. long, 1/3– 2/3 lin. broad, narrowly oblong to suborbicular, somewhat recurved at the margins, with an appendage near the minutely and obtusely bifid or rounded apex and 2 parallel keels distant from the margins on the inner face, apparently whitish; appendage 3/4–1 lin. long, from half to nearly as broad as the lobe at its base, erect or inflexed-erect with recurving or hooked and sometimes slightly diverging tips, divided to the base into 2 subulate segments or very deeply bifid or occasionally entire, overtopping the 1 1/3 lin. long staminal column, which is somewhat excavated under the anthers; anther-appendages broadly rounded or broadly ovate, with their tips inflexed over the rim of the broad, depressed-truncate style-apex; anther-wings obtusely rounded at the very prominent basal part; caudicles attached below the apex or near the middle of the pollen-masses. null
