stems compactly erect, 2–3 in. high, 4–7 lin. square, obtusely 4-angled, with spreading stoutly subulate acute deciduous teeth 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, leaving rather large and slightly prominent whitish tubercle-like scars, glabrous, green or greyish-green, spotted and mottled with purple, rather soft in substance; flowers 1–3 together at the middle or upper part of the stems, successively developed; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long, glabrous; sepals 1–1 3/4 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous; corolla nearly flat, with the centre depressed, lobed to half-way down, about 1 in. in diam., glabrous on both surfaces, ciliate from near the base nearly to the tips of the lobes with long vibratile clavate purple hairs, smooth and light green on the back dotted and spotted with purple-brown; inner surface slightly rugulose, cream-colour, spotted all over and edged on the lobes with purple-brown, the spots around the corona not smaller than the rest; lobes 3–3 1/2 lin. long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute; outer corona-lobes erectly spreading, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad at the base, thence gradually tapering to the minutely notched or acute apex, concave down the face, dark purple-brown; inner corona-lobes about 3 times as long as the anthers, 1 1/2 lin. long, subulate-filiform, acute, connivent-erect, usually more or less spreading at the tips, and with a short dorsal gibbosity at their base, marked with cream-colour and purple and tipped with white. null
