regularly and lightly sinuate-dentate in the upper half, 
but especially towards the apex, and everywhere armed 
with cilia-like stellate hairs, 830-50 cm. long, 13-20 cm. 
wide, above rough to the touch with sparse single brown 
hairs, beneath rather softly and densely tomentellous 
with long golden-rust-colored stellate hairs. Inflorescence 
fasciculate, relatively few-flowered, growing from the 
lower portion of the trunk. Pedicels articulate, 7 mm. 
long, 1.5 mm. in diameter, stellate-pilose. Buds glo- 
bose, 15 mm. in diameter, densely stellate-pilose. Calyx 
three-parted, divided almost to the base, subeymbiform. 
Sepals commonly unequal, rather carnose in life, dark 
purplish, strongly valvate in bud, externally rather 
coarsely stellate-pilose, internally very minutely granu- 
lose-pulverulent; the two interior sepals round-ovate, 
the margins entire, apically perfectly rounded, about 14 
mm. long, 10 mm. wide; the exterior sepal usually tri- 
angular-elliptic, the margin entire, apically subacute, 
13-14 mm. long, basally 6-7 mm. wide. Petals five, 
basally sessile, obovate or ovate, apically very strongly 
concave-cucullate, about 8 mm. long, 7 mm. (often up 
to 8 mm.) wide, dark blood-red with purple nerves, ex- 
ternally minutely muricate-verrucose, ligulate. Ligules 
linear, about 70 mm. long, basally 8 mm. wide, filiform 
near the apex, dark blood-red, but pinkish near the tip. 
Staminal tube five-parted with stamens bearing one and 
two anthers alternately and with short, free filaments. 
Staminodes petaloid, dark blood-red, membranaceous, 
elliptic, marginally entire, apically acute, 14-15 mm. 
long, 6-7 mm. wide, somewhat verrucose on both sur- 
faces. Fruits not numerous, ellipsoid, up to 9 cm. long, 
4 cm. in diameter, apically long-attenuate, but near the 
tip slightly constricted, the tip itself obtuse and fre- 
quently twisted, basally not indented, pedunculate, with 
remnants of the persistent sepals (peduncle articulate, 
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