in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' but from live specimens since 

 received from Major Trevor Clarke, I believe it to be dis- 

 tinct, having a caulescent habit, many-flowered scapes, and 

 less brilliantly coloured flowers. It will shortly be figured 

 in this work as B. Clarkii. 



Descr. Root tuberous. Stem almost none. Leaves nearly 

 radical, on short, stout, pilose petioles, orbicular- or broadly 

 ovate-cordate, concave, obscurely lobed and crenate, four to 

 six inches in diameter, thick in texture ; nerves radiating 

 from the centre, very prominent below ; upper surface dark- 

 green, under very pale ; margins red and ciliate. Stipules 

 membranous, triangular, ovate, red. Scape erect, stout, 

 terete, eight to ten inches high, pilose, two-flowered, male 

 and female. Bracts concave, membranous, oblong, obtuse, 

 ciliate, rose-red. Peduncles about one inch long. Flowers 

 one and three-quarters to two and a half inches in diameter, 

 bright cinnabar-red ; male flower largest ; perianth segments 

 four, broadly ovate ; stamens very numerous, crowded on a 

 slightly elevated torus; filaments filiform; anther broadly 

 obovate, obtuse ; female flower, perianth segments five, as in 

 the male flower. Ovary green, obcuneate, unequally three- 

 winged ; style trifid, lobes bifid, with spiral stigmatic bands ; 

 placenta bifid and lobed, the lobes ovuliferous all over. — 

 J. I). H. 



Fig. 1. Ovary and style and stigmas. 2. Transverse section of ovary. 

 3. Stamen : — all magnified. 



