Descr.—Stems short, two to three inches high, about an 
inch in diameter, simple, sub-erect, five-angled, glabrous, 
pale green; angles deeply, regularly sinuate-toothed ; teeth 
about a fourth of an inch long, subulate-deltoid, laterally 
compressed, green, pungent. lowers from the lower part 
of the stem stoutly pedicelled, one and a half to two inches 
in diameter; pedicel sigmoidly curved, stout. Sepals 
subulate, about a fourth of an inch long. Corolla-tube 
small, globosely campanulate, glabrous; limb spreading 
and recurved, forming an annulus around the mouth of the 
tube, dark purple, glabrous, remotely five-lobed ; lobes del- 
toid, spreading, acute, ochraceous, studded with purple 
papille; sinus with a minute tooth. Corona very small; | 
outer lobes sub-quadrate, bifid, glabrous, blood-red ; inner. 
broadly subulate, incurved, with their tips connivent, 
golden-yellow, bases tumid. Pollinia narrowly clavate, 
seated on a two-winged gland.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, staminal corona; 2, the same, with the inner lobes removed; 3 and 
4, pollinia :— All enlarged. 
