stems 1 ft. high and much like those of S. conformis (Pillans); pedicels short, 1/2 in. long, 2 lin. thick, velvety; sepals 4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, velvety; corolla 4 1/2–5 in. in diam. with the lobes extended, velvety-puberulous on the back, transversely rugulose on the inner face, with the disk and lower 2/3 of the lobes light purple with very numerous narrow crowded transverse light yellowish or straw-coloured lines not extending to the margins, and the apical third dull purple or purple-brown with a small ochreous or greenish patch at the apex; disk depressed at the centre and together with the basal half or rather more of the lobes thickly covered with very fine soft simple pure white hairs 1/4 in. or more long; lobes recurving, 1 3/4–2 in. long, 1–1 1/6 in. broad, lanceolate, acute, ciliate with long simple white hairs, much stouter and longer than those on their face, part of them directed inwards; outer corona-lobes ascending-spreading with recurving tips, about 1/4 in. long, linear, acuminate, concave down the face, dark purple-brown with paler (ochreous or whitish?) margins; inner corona-lobes ascending-spreading, dark purple-brown, perhaps slightly paler at the tips, with the dorsal wing 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long, adnate from 1/4– 2/3 of its length to the inner horn, with the free part scarcely 1 lin. broad at the base, thence tapering to an acute apex, entire or with a tooth on the inner margin; inner horn 5–6 lin. long, triquetrous-subulate, acute, rather straight and parallel with the dorsal margin of the wing below, slightly recurved at the apex. null
