stem solitary, 2/3–1 2/3 ft. high, simple or rarely branched, 2/3–1 1/2 lin. thick at the base, pubescent, terete or slightly compressed; internodes numerous, usually much shorter than the leaves, which are 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 1–6 lin. broad above the broader base, varying from oblong-hastate to linear-hastate, obtuse or acute, apiculate, somewhat scabrous above and on the veins beneath; petioles 1–2 lin. long; umbels 5–12 to a stem, pedunculate, racemose, usually 4–6-flowered; peduncles 3–9 lin. long, pubescent or subtomentose with minute curved hairs; bracts 1–2 lin. long, filiform or subulate; pedicels 2 1/2–5 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 1 1/4–1 2/3 lin. long, about 3/5 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, pubescent; corolla-lobes 2 1/4–2 3/4 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, erect, rather deeply concave, incurved at the tips, very broadly rounded or subtruncate at the apex, glabrous on both sides or slightly and very minutely puberulous on the inner face, apparently dark brownish-purple more or less suffused with greenish at the tips; corona-lobes whitish or with a purple central stripe, shorter than or equalling the staminal column, 1/2 lin. long and as much or rather more in breadth, subquadrate or suborbicular, with the margin recurved at the top or all round or bent back thusΛ, with an appendage and 2 keels distant from the margins on the inner face, from the apex of the keels a short subhorizontal or deflexed transverse keel on each side extends to the margin; appendage scarcely 1/2 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 as broad as the lobe at its base, erect, just overtopping the style-apex, linear, channelled down the inner face, more or less minutely bifid (rarely 3-toothed) at the apex or rarely divided to the base into 2 or 3 segments, or entire; staminal column 3/4 lin. long; anther-appendages oblong or ovate, obtuse, erect, with their tips very slightly incurved on the margin of the broad truncate 5-crenate style-apex; caudicles lateral, attached above the middle of the oblong pollen-masses; follicles about 2 in. long and 5–6 lin. thick, fusiform-lanceolate, tapering into an obtuse beak, finely pubescent with minute curved hairs and rather thinly covered with erect filiform processes 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long. null
