Branches decumbent, 2-3 1/2 in. long, more or less pubescent or puberulous; leaves 1/4-2/3 in. long, filiform or linear-filiform, rarely hastate-filiform, acute, glabrous or pubescent; umbels pedunculate, 2-5-flowered; peduncles 2-5 lin. long, puberulous or pubescent on one side; bracts minute; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, puberulous; sepals about 3/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, ovate, acute, glabrous; corolla-lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, very spreading, oblong, obtuse, slightly twisted, glabrous on both sides, apparently dull green; outer series of corona-lobes 1/2 lin. long, entire, oblong-linear, obtuse or subtruncate, purple, with white margins; middle series 3/4 lin. long, oblong or linear, obtuse, with inflexed triangular sides at the base, but scarcely 3-lobed; inner series 1/3 lin. long, oblong-linear, concave, obtuse; style-apex very stout, oblong to obovoid-clavate, obtuse, probably 5-angled, produced 1/2, lin. beyond the anther-appendages.
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