furrowed, dark green coloured with livid-purple; the 
upper and lower with three leaflets; the intermediate with 
five; the upper simple. Leaflets oval lanceolate, acuminate 
at each end, deeply nerved, with veins coloured beneath; 
the upper simple sessile, placed in the room of bractese, 
cordate-ovate, obtuse. Raceme terminal, corymbose, with 
long, rigid, filiform, spreading pedicel. Sepals ovate acu¬ 
minate. Petals rosy, with an ovate entire limb. Torus 
fleshy, hemispherical. Stamens nearly equal, spreading. 
Ovary cylindrical, slightly rough beneath the microscope, 
placed on a stalk nearly as long as filaments. Stigma 
narrower than the ovary. 
J. L. 
