stems erect, somewhat crowded, 2–5 in. long, 1/2– 2/3 in. square, obtusely 4-angled, grooved down the sides, very shortly toothed on the angles, the teeth tipped with rudimentary subulate leaves 1/2 lin. long, glabrous, dull green; flowers several together, successively developed on a stout gradually elongating peduncle near the base or middle of the young stems; pedicels 3/4–2 in. long, glabrous, spreading or directed downwards; sepals 1–2 1/2 lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous; corolla in bud flat, pentagonal, with very short points at the angles; when expanded 1–1 1/4 in. in diam., lobed to half-way down, flat, without a distinct tube, quite glabrous on both sides, but ciliate along 2/3 of the length of the lobes with long vibratile clavate purple hairs, smooth and pale green thickly spotted with purple-brown on the back; inner surface slightly rugulose, varying from very pale sulphur-white to pale greenish-yellow, everywhere covered with minute dust-like dots of purple-brown or those on the lobes much larger than those on the disk, sometimes the lobes are narrowly margined with purple-brown; lobes 3 1/2–5 lin. long and as much in breadth, broadly ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute, flat, recurving; outer corona-lobes 1–1 1/4 lin. long, deeply bifid, with the rectangular basal part ascending-spreading and the subulate teeth recurving and diverging, dark purple-brown, shining; inner corona-lobes simple, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, horizontally incumbent on the backs of the anthers, in some flowers shorter than them, in others longer, with their tips crossing one another but not erect, not gibbous behind, purple-brown. null
