Descr. Hoots of numerous elongate, spindle-shaped, fleshy, 
insipid, inodorous tubers. Sfem none. Leaves two, appear- 
ing together, spreading horizontally on the ground, four to 
five inches long, rather narrower, orbicular or orbicular-ob- 
long, subacute, rather leathery and undulate, the margins 
with a slender, pale, cartilaginous, minutely-crisped_ border ; 
upper surface dull, dark, opaque green, variegated, mottled, 
or zoned with paler green; under surface dirty-greenish, in- 
clining to reddish. Flowers fascicled, sessile, one opening 
at a time, pure white, four about one inch in diameter, in- 
odorous. racts lanceolate, hyaline. Calyx short, subcylin- 
dric, oblique, slender, glabrous. Tube of corolla cylindric, 
one and a half inch long; outer segments linear, acute ; inner 
spreading horizontally, obovate, obtuse, anterior deeply 2- 
lobed ; lobes obtuse. Anther linear-oblong; connective un- 
~ guiculate. Stigma cuneate, 2-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with anterior petal removed. 3. Anther 
and stigma :—all magnified. 
