plant about 5 ft. high; stem stout, pubescent with spreading hairs; leaves ascending, very shortly petiolate, 7–8 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad, elongated ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, rounded or shortly cordate at the base, thinly pubescent on both sides, margins not very scabrid and not undulated; umbels several, the upper rather crowded, many-flowered, globose, 1 1/2 in. in diam.; peduncle 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, erect, stout, hairy-pubescent; bracts 1/4 in. long, subulate, pubescent; pedicels 6–8 lin. long, subtomentose; sepals 3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, channelled at the tips, pubescent; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed nearly to the base, about 4 1/2 lin. in diam.; lobes 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the concave lower part within, densely bearded with white hairs 1/4– 1/2 lin. long on the recurved tips; corona-lobes 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1 1/3 lin. broad, arising a little above the base of the staminal column, erect, closely applied to the backs of the anthers and reaching to the base of the anther-appendages, suborbicular, flat, fleshy, obtusely gibbous-keeled on the back, and having a very slight linear keel on the face at the base; staminal column about 2 lin. long; anthers subquadrate, with the wings produced into deltoid truncate teeth; anther-appendages ovate, acute, inflexed-connivent over the short conical obtuse style-apex; pollen-masses scarcely 1/2 lin. long, roundish-pear-shaped, attached to the black ovoid pollen-carrier by rather long crooked caudicles; follicles not seen. null
