Descr. Leaves few, the short, fine red petioles rising 

 directly out of the earth, of an obliquely ovate form, from 

 four to six inches long, slightly hairy, full and bright 

 green, wrinkled, as it were, on the surface from the tight- 

 ness of the reticulated veins ,• the margins undulate, 

 sinuato-lobate, and everywhere closely serrated and cili- 

 ated ; the base deeply two-lobed ; the lobes rounded, 

 approximated, and the inner edge of one lapping over 

 that of the other. Scapes rising up from among the leaves, 

 greatly longer than they, thick, tapering upwards, hairy, 

 full and bright red, above paniculato-ramose, with several 

 large, handsome flowers. Peduncles and pedicels deep red, 

 bracteated ; bracteas scariose, loose, and soon deciduous, 

 broad oval. Male flowers rather larger than the female : 

 each with fixe petals, of which two are red, blush-coloured, 

 suffused with a deeper tinge; the three others are cream 

 colour, scarcely tinged with blush. Stamens and stigmas 

 yellow. Fruit triquetrous, deep red ; two of the angles 

 with very short margins or wings ; of the third, the angle 

 is produced into a much elongated, somewhat triangular, 

 obtuse wing, a little curved upwards. 



Fig. 1. Immature Fruit : — magnified. 



