stem 3–10 in. high, usually simple, flattened, pubescent, with about 4–6 internodes, the middle 2 mostly 2–4 1/2 in. long, the others shorter; leaves ascending, shortly petiolate, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 1–5 lin. broad, linear to oblong, acute or obtuse, apiculate, varying from rounded to obtusely hastate at the base, thinly pubescent or subscabrous all over, or only along the revolute margins above, pubescent or hairy on the midrib beneath; umbels 2–3, subcorymbose or the lower one distant from the rest, pedunculate, 3–7-flowered; peduncles 2–13 lin. long, pubescent or hairy; pedicels 2–3 lin. long, pubescent or hairy; sepals 1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, shortly hairy; corolla-lobes 3 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, suberect or erectly spreading, with recurved margins and incurved tips, oblong and obtusely pointed when flattened out, glabrous on both sides, or with very few hairs on the back, white with pink lines (Wood), in the dried state sometimes with purple-brown veins and borders on the back; corona-lobes erect, white (Wood), equalling or shortly exceeding the style-apex, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1/2 to nearly 1 lin. broad, ovate, elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong, bifid or variously toothed or subtruncate at the apex, with the teeth sometimes (always?) recurved, rounded, subtruncate or subcordate at the base, with two appendages and 2 parallel keels on the inner face; appendages arising near the apex of the lobe and not or but slightly exceeding it, 1/3– 2/5 lin. long, oblong or subquadrate, contiguous or overlapping, bifid or minutely or distinctly toothed at the apex, rarely simple; staminal column about 1 1/4 lin. long, broadly obconic; anthers blackish or dark coloured in the dried state, their appendages subreniform, very obtuse, erect, reaching to the rim of the style-apex, white with a purple-brown centre; anther wings broadly rounded, and not very prominent at the basal part; pollen-masses with a pellucid space at one end; caudicles lateral; style-apex broad, shortly 5-lobed, with a raised rim and depressed centre, pink (Wood). null
