stems lax, decumbent at the base, 3–4 in. high, 1/3– 1/2 in. square, with flattish sides, glabrous to the eye, but very minutely puberulous under a lens; rudimentary leaves very minute, erect, about 1/2 lin. long, deltoid, acute; flowers 1–2 together at the lower part of the stems; pedicels 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 3/4 lin. thick, and together with the calyx minutely puberulous like the stems; sepals 1 1/2–2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute; corolla about 1 1/2 in. in diam., very deeply lobed, the united part forming a very small funnel-shaped tube about 2 lin. deep and 3–3 1/2 lin. broad, whitish, covered with short erect clavate purple hairs on the upper part and around its mouth; lobes horizontally spreading, 2/3 in. long, about 2 1/2 lin. broad when flattened out, linear-lanceolate, acute, margins much recurved, with an exceedingly minute puberulence on the back, transversely rugose, with very prominent ridges and glabrous on the inner surface, not ciliate, dull yellow; outer corona-lobes nearly erect, 1 1/3–1 1/2 lin. long, oblong, with the sides much incurved and pressed against the base of the inner corona-lobes forming deep nectar-cavities, subtruncate and somewhat toothed on the top margin on each side of the short acute apical spreading point, purple, yellowish at the base; inner corona-lobes 2-horned, white, tinged with purple; outer horn free to the base, about 2 lin. long, laterally flattened, linear-subulate, suberect; inner horn about 3 lin. long, dorsally flattened, linear-filiform, connivent at the base, then recurving over the tip of the outer horn. null
