stems erect from a shortly decumbent base, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 3–5 lin. thick excluding the teeth, obtusely 4-angled, with ascending-spreading stout conical-subulate very acute teeth 1/3– 1/2 in. long, glabrous, green, striped and mottled with purple; flowers 3 or more together near the base of the young stems, successively developed; pedicels 1–1 1/4 in. long, glabrous; sepals 2–2 1/2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corolla 1 1/2–1 2/3 in. in diam., flattish, with a convex disk supporting the corona raised above the level of the horizontally spreading or slightly deflexed lobes, glabrous on both sides, very rugose with small transverse wrinkles on the inner surface, ciliate along the middle part only of the lobes with long vibratile clavate dark purple hairs, chocolate or dull purple-brown, with a few dull yellow dots on the lobes, which are 5–6 lin. long, 4–5 lin. broad, ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, convex, with recurving margins; outer corona-lobes horizontally spreading, about 3/4 lin. long and nearly as broad, rectangular or subquadrate, slightly notched or subdenticulate at the apex, grooved down the face, dark purple-brown; inner corona-lobes simple, with the basal part horizontally incumbent on the backs of the anthers, flattish, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, tapering into an erect subulate point about 1/2 lin. long, entire or with a minute tooth on each side at the base of the point, and slightly produced behind into a minute ascending entire or bifid tubercle, purple-brown. null
