sparsely glandular; stipules two, as long as the petioles, 
foliaceous, very convex, base rounded, apex apiculate or 
acuminate. Tendrils very slender. Flowers solitary, two 
inches in diameter ; stellately spreading; peduncle slender, 
longer than the petiole. Calyz green, tube depressed-— 
Spherical, base intruded; lobes linear-oblong, with a 
setaceous spinule beneath the rounded apex. Petals as 
long as the sepals, linear, subacute, white; undulate. 
Corona of three to four series of threads, that are white 
banded with violet; outer series one-third shorter than the 
petals, subacute ; inner short, erect, tips clubbed simple or 
two- to three-fid, dark violet; innermost combined below 
into a membranous tube. Column about twice as long as 
the inner corona, speckled with purple, as are the filaments, 
which are equal in length to the linear-oblong anthers. 
Styles longer than the filaments, stigmas globose.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of calyx and corona; 2, threads of inner corona; 3, portion 
of tube and threads of innermost corona :—all enlarged. 
