the present instance very clearly spotted with white, less distinct 

 on the under side. Peduncles or scapes rising from the rhizome, 

 thick, one to two inches long, clothed with imbricated bracts. 

 Perianth carnoso-coriaceous, campanulate, octofid (four lobes 

 external and four internal), pale-green, minutely dotted with 

 purple or brown on the outside, purplish within ; near the base 

 ot the tube are eight, sessile, ovate anthers, and within them a 

 small, conical, four-celled ovary, tapering into a short style, and 

 crowned with a very large, purple, peltate stigma, wrinkled on 

 the surlace and four-lobed at the margin, the lobes bifid 



pekat liilT [Ca 9 T Cti ° n ° f a fl °- Ver ' sh ° win S the »»«**. ovary, and ,reat 

 peltate stigma. 2. transverse section of an ovary .— mct[/l ujieJ. 



