stems rather compact, 6–8 in. high, 3/4– 7/8 in. square when fully developed, with the angles much compressed, shortly toothed, pubescent, green; rudimentary leaves about 1 lin. long, erect; flowers 1–3 together at the base of the stems, developing successively; pedicels 1–1 1/4 in. long, 2 lin. thick, pubescent; sepals about 5 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, pubescent; corolla 4 1/2–5 in. in diam. with the lobes extended, minutely pubescent on the back; inner surface transversely rugose, thinly covered with short erect purple hairs on the disk, glabrous on the lobes, which are about 1 3/4 in. long and 1 in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, abruptly recurved at about 1/3 above their base, thickly ciliate to their tips with long purple hairs, half of them directed inwards, dark purple-brown, more intense at the tips, with transverse irregular and often forked pale lemon-yellow lines (summits of the ridges) on the basal 2/3 of the lobes; disk flattish with a slight central depression; outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, straight, not recurved at the tips, about 2 1/2 lin. long, linear, deeply concave-channelled down the face, more or less 3-toothed at the apex, with the lateral teeth rounded, sometimes unequal and the middle tooth shortly subulate, blackish-purple, passing into dull orange at the base, minutely pubescent with blackish hairs on the middle tooth and down the middle of the back; inner corona-lobes blackish-purple, with the dorsal wing sometimes entirely adnate to and much shorter than the triquetrous-subulate acute erectly spreading and but slightly recurved inner horn, sometimes adnate for 1/2– 1/3 of its length and produced above into a broad oblong free wing, more or less denticulate at the oblique obtuse apex and not much shorter than the inner horn, glabrous. null
