tiolated, deeply cordate, approaching to ovate, entire eaves, gla- 
brous, as is every part of the plant, spotted and mottled as in 
Cyclamen Europeum. Petioles erect, as long as the /eaves, deeply 
channelled in the inside. From the base of these, and arising 
from a bracteal scale, appears the flower, on a very short pe- 
duncle, inclined or drooping. Perianth depresso-globose, of a 
dark, dull, purplish-green colour, contracted near the base, where 
it is united to the base of the ovary, and still more contracted at 
the wrinkled and pale-coloured mouth; the /imé, of three large, 
triangular, but blunt segments, spreads horizontally. The in- 
ternal surface is deeply cellular. Stamens twelve, arising from a 
dise which surrounds the nearly superior ovary. Azthers almost 
sessile, alternately smaller, erect, ovate, acuminate ; ced/s adnate 
with the sides of the acute conpectivum. Ovary a short, thick 
column, the base only incorporated with the perianth, six-celled ; 
cells many-ovuled. Stigma large, formed of six large rays, 
spreading horizontally over the entire ovary, each ray with a 
glandular stigmatic surface at the extremity. 
Fig. 1. Flower with the perianth cut through vertically, showing its interior - 
surface, the stamens, the ovary, and large sessile-rayed stigma. 2. Stamens and 
pistils, removed from the perianth :—magnijied. 
