plant 3–4 in. high, branching at the base; stems erect, 1/2– 3/4 in. square, with obtuse angles and stout spreading conical teeth 2–3 lin. long, minutely puberulous; flowers 1–2 together near the base of the stems; pedicels stout, 2–4 in. long, glabrous to the eye, but with a very minute and rather sparse pubescence; sepals 4 1/2 lin. long; corolla 5–6 in. in diam. with the lobes extended, rotate, with a thick solid annulus 1 in. or more in diam. on the disk, glabrous on the back and on the slightly rugose inner surface of the lobes, with the annulus and disk around it loosely villous with long soft purple hairs and the lobes ciliate with similar hairs, purple-brown, marked with numerous transverse pale yellow lines on the disk and basal 2/3 of the lobes, with their apical third entirely dark purple-brown; lobes 1 3/4–2 in. long, about 1 1/2 in. broad, ovate, acute or acuminate; annulus stout, solid, with 5 slight broad crenations formed by 5 shallow grooves radiating from the centre, “buff, with yellowish transverse wrinkles” (Barkly); outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, acuminate, channelled down the face, yellow, dotted or mottled with purple-brown; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, purple-brown; outer horn 1 1/2–2 lin. long, free to the base, ascending, laterally flattened, subulate or deltoid-subulate, entire or toothed behind or at the apex; inner horn 3–3 1/2 lin. long, subulate, recurving from about the middle. null
