broadly ovate, acute, three-nerved, quite entire except a 
minute marginal tooth at the termination of each nerve; 
base rounded or retuse, with a series of minute marginal 
red glands; dull green above, beneath dull red-purple and 
reticulately veined, nerves very slender; petiole one to 
one and a half inches, slender, eglandular. Stipules three- 
quarters of an inch to one inch broad, sessile, reniform, 
denticulate, pale purplish and reticulate; bracts two, 
appressed to the flower, sessile, broadly ovate, apiculate, 
-subcordate, half the length of the sepals, pale purplish 
and reticulate. Tendrils axillary, very slender. lowers 
solitary, axillary, pendulous, long-pedicelled, three inches 
in diameter. Sepals ovate-oblong, tip rounded, concave, 
very pale green, with three green nerves on the back. 
Petals like the sepals, but whiter. Outer corona of several 
series of orange-yellow flexuous filaments three-quarters 
of an inch long, with clavate tips; inner corona a low 
suleate crenate inflexed membrane with thickened margins. 
Gynophore short; ovary subglobose, sessile on a short 
gynophore, and styles green, glabrous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of ccrona; 2, filaments of corona; 3, part of the mem- 
brane of the inner corona seen from within :—all enlarged. 
