memoranda relating to it being lost, we do not know to © 
whom this work is indebted for it. 
Stem erect, flexuose, smooth. Leaves stalked, sagittate- 
cordate, somewhat repand, roughish at the margin ; with 
an ovate, membranous vagina ; the upper leaves sessile and 
amplexicaul. Flowers pink, in racemose panicles. Calyx 
5-parted. Stamens 10, with as many hypogynous glands. 
Stigmas 3. 
J.L. 
