with a few sheathing short scales at the base, ten to twelve 
inches, two arising from the same root, oblong, coriaceo-carnose, 
dark green, subcanaliculate, very obtuse, with a short mucro. 
Scape radical, arising from between the two leaves, with a large 
conduplicate sheathing dract at the base, a foot long, terete, 
dark purple, terminating in our specimen in three large, very 
handsome, bracteated, pedicelled fowers. Bracts resembling that 
at the base of the scape, but smaller. Pedice/s shorter than the 
bract, supporting an elongated, six-angled, one-celled ovary OY 
Immature capsule, one and a half to two inches long. Sepa/s two, 
large, spreading, uniform in shape, but the upper one the largest, 
broad-ovate, acuminate, white within, streaked and mottled with 
dark-purple externally, and tinged with yellow ; the lower one 
is, however, formed of the two lateral combined sepals. Petals 
four to five inches long, curved downwards, linear acuminate, 
tawny yellow, lined and blotched with purple, ciliated on the 
margin at each side of the base. zp large, standing forward 
horizontally, the lower half contracted, the sides involute, white, 
the rest cucullate, purplish, with red réticulated veins; the 
whole shaped like a ‘Turkish slipper. Sfyle a short white column, 
bearing, upon a separate branch, two orbicular, yellow, sessile 
anthers at the base of a large abortive, ovate, white, fleshy disk or 
abortive third stamen: another short branch of the style bears 
the s/zgma, a large, cordate, fleshy disk, yellowish, margined with 
a thick filamentous fringe. 
Fig. 1. Style and stigma, with staminiferous column, side view. 2. Front 
view of the same, showing the two anthers. 3. View of the upper surface of the 
stigma. 4. Front view of a labellum. 5. Transverse section of an immature 
capsule,—all slightly magnified. 
N.B.—By a strange oversight, in the last number of our ‘ Botanical Maga- 
zine,’ under t. 5343, Berberidopsis corallina, it was omitted to be noticed that that 
most lovely new shrub was imported from Chili by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
Exeter and King’s Road, Chelsea, and that the specimen figured was derived from 
a plant in the open ground at Exeter. 
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