summer growth is always vigorous and rapid; and they are 
profuse bloomers. 
Descr. Stemless. Roof tuberous. Leaves all radical, 
spreading, broadly obliquely ovate-cordate, or almost orbicular, 
subacute, glossy above, and furnished with stiff erect scattered 
hairs, more glabrous and red beneath, margins shallowly 
lobulate and crenulate, basal nerves radiating from the top of 
the petiole, midrib pennineryed ; petiole short,stout, hirsute. — : 
Scapes longer than the leaves, bright-red, glabrous, simple, 
3-flowered; bracts 2 at the base of the pedicels, broadly 
oblong, concave, crimson, ciliate. Flowers ternate pedicelled, 
the two lateral female, the central rather larger and male, 
about one and a half inches in diameter; petals 4, crim- 
son, the outer ovate very obtuse, the inner rather smaller, 
oblong. Stamens 8-10-small, filaments almost free, as long 
as the oblong anthers. Ovary 3-winged ; lateral wings short, 
obtuse ; dorsal long, triangular acute ; styles 3, with twisted 
short horse-shoe-shaped stigmas ; placenta bifid.—J. D. H. 
Fig 1, Female flower with petals removed ; 2, stamens :—both enlarged. 
