spirally curled like the peduncle: leaflets petiolulate (petiolules 
purple) elliptical ovate, acuminate, entire, full green above, paler 
beneath, everywhere glabrous. The lower pair of leaflets is said 
sometimes to divide, so as to make the number seven. Peduncle 
axillary, single flowered, or, as may be judged by the tubercles 
on our specimens and the figures of authors, two- and even 
three-flowered, twisted, thickened upwards. Calyx of five 
closely imbricated, erect, rather fleshy sepals, nearly equal in 
height, broadly ovate or subrotundate, the outer rather acute, 
and a little shorter than the rest; the inner very obtuse, all 
edged with purple. Corolla large, of the same dark purple 
colour without as within. The tube is rather strikingly inflated, 
immediately above the calyx, so as to be bell-shaped, as far as 
the faux: the limb is spreading, of five rounded rather waved 
emarginate lobes, much plaited between the lobes. Stamens and 
filiform style as long as the tube. Filaments woolly at the point 
of insertion in the corolla. Ovary sunk in a fleshy disc or ring. 
Stigma capitate, two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Base of the corolla bearing the stamens. 2. Pistil and hypogyuous 
ring or disc :— magnijied. 
