stems erect, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. thick, acutely 4–5-angled, glabrous, glaucous-green; angles with spreading deltoid acute teeth 1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 2 or more, successively developed near the base of the young stems; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long, rather slender, glabrous; sepals about 1/4 in. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous; corolla acutely pointed and pentagonal in bud, when expanded 1 1/4–2 in. in diam., campanulate, with ascending-spreading or gradually recurving lobes, glabrous and without spots outside, clear or dirty sulphur-yellow to pale buff on the inside, marked on the lobes and upper part of the tube with blood-red dots, which pass into transverse interrupted lines on the lower part of the tube, covered from the middle of the tube to the base or to 2/3 of the way up the lobes with long stiff clavate purple hairs, which become minute upon the lobes, each seated on a purple-brown papilla, with the tips and margins of the lobes papillate; tube 2/3–1 in. long; lobes 1/2– 2/3 in. long and nearly as broad, deltoid, acuminate; outer-corona 5-lobed, blackish or blackish-crimson; lobes subquadrate, emarginate or shortly and obtusely bifid; inner corona-lobes 1 1/2–2 lin. long, subulate, slightly gibbous at the base, connivent over the style-apex at the basal part, then divergent-ascending, with suberect tips, purple. null
