chiefly in the pale sulphur-coloured transverse bands of the 

 corolla lobes. 



Descr. Stem stout, creeping ; branches downy, five to nine 

 inches long, erect, columnar or subclavate, with four thick 

 wings; wings remotely toothed; teeth incurved, and terminated 

 by short, soft, incurved spines. Peduncles at the base of the 

 branches, stout,, and, as well as the calyx, pubescent. Corolla 

 five inches in diameter, villous around the throat ; lobes an inch 

 to an inch and a half broad, ovate-lanceolate, purplish-brown 

 in the centre, and there transversely barred with wavy yellow 

 bands, margins and apex broadly black-purple, ciliated with 

 long hairs. Staminal crown double; outer lobes simple, 

 entire, narrow ; inner broader, unequally two-lobed.— J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Staminal crown, — magnified 



