upper surface bright green, under glaucescent; nerves five 
to seven pair radiating from the tip of the petiole, slender, 
reticulating ; petiole one to two and a half inches long, very 
slender; stipules falcately reniform or almost orbicular, 
with an oblique base. lowers solitary, long-pedicelled, 
together with the pedicel two to three inches long; ovary 
very slender. Perianth-tube (or sack) one and a half inches 
long, oblong, rather inflated, pale yellow-green ; limb 
suddenly expanding from a very short funnel-shaped base 
into a nearly circular shallow cup, cordate at the base and 
three inches in diameter ; externally white reticulated with 
undefined red purple veins; internally the limb is deep rich 
purple brown; it is velvety towards the centre, and whitish 
towards the circumference, where the purple is irrorated 
with white; mouth yellow-green. Stylar column short, 
cylindric, but expanded upwards into six oblong obtuse 
teeth. Anthers six; cells very narrow.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of ovary and stylar column ; 2, column :—Joth magnified. 
