green stems; branches obscurely angled. Leaves six to 
seven inches long and broad, suborbicular in outline, 
abruptly narrowed into the petiole at the broad hardly 
cordate base, deeply 3-lobed, pale green, and convex on 
the upper surface, with reticulated veins; lobes sub- 
parallel, decurved, lateral oblong, rounded at the tip; 
mid-lobe longest, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the 
obtuse tip ; sinus between the lobes narrow, base rounded ; 
petiole one to one and a half inch long, deeply grooved on 
the upper side; stipular leaves none. [lowers about three 
inches long, in few-fld. corymbs. Perianth divisible into 
four sections; 1, a short, narrow, terete, solid stipes, 
about a quarter of an inch long; 2, a dull purple, broadly 
obovoid, oblong bladder, nearly an inch long, with two 
collateral, dorsal bosses on the back below the next 
section; 3, acurved tube, about as long as the bladder, 
expanding into a small, funnel-shaped mouth, with re- 
curved margins, from the dorsal margin of which arises ; 
4, a spathulate, erect, or reclined, tomentose, red-brown 
limb, an inch long, with a terminal apiculus, and revolute 
margins; inner surface of the bladder and mouths of the 
bosses villous. Colwmn cup-shaped round the six stigmas, 
and with a few hairs at the base—J. D. H., 
_ Fig. 1, Section of tube of perianth; 2, column with the ovary and pedicel 
like base of the perianth ; 3, column :—A/] enlarged. 
