and petioles, it certainly may take rank with the best plants 

 of its class. 



There is a very similar, and probably identical plant in 

 the Hookerian Herbarium, collected by Lechler in Peru, and 

 also in woods about Monterico, at an elevation of three to 

 four thousand feet, by Pearce, who describes the leaves as 

 fleshy, subacid, and astringent. Lechler's plant is labelled 

 Monolena Sprucei, by Triana, but that name being unpublished, 

 I have adopted that of primulcefiora, which has been already 

 applied to it. 



Descr. Eootstoch crowded, as large as a hazel nut, scarred. 

 Leaves, four to six inches long, elliptic, acuminate, three- to 

 five-nerved from above the base, margins sinuate-toothed, 

 ciliate, upper surface bright glossy green, lower and petiole 

 red-purple. Peduncles variable in length, two to three flowered. 

 Flowers, one inch diameter, deep bright pink, with a white eye 

 and yellow anthers ; bracts orbicular ; pedicles very short. 

 Calyx tube bluntly trigonous, globose, lobes short, rounded. 

 Petals obovate or obcordate. Anthers with a club-shaped, erect 

 appendage. Style swollen above the base.— J. B. H. 



Fig. 1 Flower with petals removed and bract: 2, stamens- 3 ovarv 

 diBk, and style; 4, vertical section of ditto :-«« magnifcl ' ' 7 ' 



