the moneecious flowers, males with 4-8 petals, fem. with 5, 
stigmas persistent, with horse-shoe shaped arms (hardly 
the case in B. Bawmanni) and 2-fid placentas. It includes 
the sections Huszia, Hupetalum, and Barya of A. de 
Candolle. 
B, Baumanni is a native of Cochibamba in the Eastern 
Andes of Central Bolivia, the capital of which (of the 
same name) is 8396 ft. above the sea. From thence 
seeds were sent to Herrn E. N. Baumann of Bolivia, in 
honour of whom the plant is named. The drawing here 
given was made from a plant which flowered in a cool 
greenhouse of the Royal Gardens in September, 1896. 
Tt succeeds also in summer in the open air. 
Descr.—Rootstock globose, attaining the dimensions of a 
middle-sized melon; stem petiole and branches of in- 
florescence and pedicels bright rose-red, sparsely hairy. 
Stem one to one and a half feet high, stout, leafy. 
Leaves stoutly petioled, three to five inches broad, fleshy, 
reniform, doubly crenate, palmately nerved, sparsely 
hispidulous on both surfaces, and on the margins, andon 
the stout flabellate nerves beneath, bright green above, 
paler beneath, and often suffused with red; petiole four 
to six inches long. Flowers moncecious, very large, rose- 
red, in a lax terminal nodding few-fld. raceme, very 
sweet-scented; bracts lacerate; pedicels one to three 
inches long, stout. Male flowers upward of three inches 
in diameter. Petals four, subcuneately orbicular. 
Stamens crowded in a globose mass; filaments short, 
free; anthers obovoid. Jem. flowers about two and a 
half inches in diameter. Petals 5, unequal, cuneately- 
obovate or -orbicular. Styles 3, short, broadly cuneate, 
truncate, convolute, and undulate, stigmatose along the 
upper margins only. Ovary fleshy, green, hairy, with 
three thick wings, two of them rounded, the other 
cuneiform, three-celled; placentas bipartite, segments 
ovuliferous on both faces.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, ovary and styles; 4, transverse section of ovary : 
—All enlarged. 
