with ascending divaricate green cylindric or fusiform 

 branches, one and a half to four inches long ; branches 

 about half an inch in diameter, with five or six furrows, 

 separated by rounded ridges. Leaves minute, tooth-like, 

 distant, horizontal or recurved. Flowers few, in a sessile 

 cyme ; bracts subulate, and short pedicels dark purple. 

 Sepals linear-subulate, greenish or purple, spreading. 

 Corolla nearly one inch in diameter and as long, campanu- 

 late; lobes very short, broadly triangular, acute, sinus 

 very shallow, with a central tooth, outer surface roughly 

 papillose, pale purplish with broad dull veins ; inner surface 

 very dark purple, clothed with pointed papilla?. Column 

 very short ; outer corona of five broad short truncate very 

 dark lobes ; inner of five oblong-lanceolate yellowish erect 

 incurved obtuse lobes, shortly produced beyond the 

 anthers. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Base of column with sepals and corona; 2, column ; 3, column with the 

 five inner lobes of the corona removed ; 4 and 5, pollinia : — all enlarged. 



