inch long, broadly oblong, green with deeper green veins. 
Flowering-stem six to eight inches high, very robust, naked 
below, bearing below the conical raceme one or two pairs 
of opposite leaves with the leaflets convolute during 
flowering, and with large broad stipules often tipped with 
red-brown at the base of the petiole; bracts like the 
stipules, but darker-coloured, shorter and broader. Flowers 
nearly one inch in diameter, ochreous yellow, streaked with 
red-brown at the back. Sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse. 
Petals small, erect, cuneately oblong, with a crenate 
truncate apex, rather shorter than the stamens, concave in 
front and tubular at the base. Stamens short, anthers 
oblong. Ovary stipitate, ovoid, narrowed into the stout 
curved style-—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bud with bract; 2, flower with sepals removed; 3, petal; 4 and 5, 
stamens ; 6, stamen with anther valves spreading ; 7, ovary and top of pedicel; 8, 
top of pedicel and ovules :—all enlarged. 
