figured was purchased for the Royal Gardens from F. H. 
Horsford, Nurseryman, of Charlotte, Vermont. It flowered 
in a cold frame in February, 1896. 
Descr.—A glabrous, dwarf herb. Stem very short, 
stout, clothed with brown, torn sheaths, and emitting from 
a short rhizome fascicles of stout, simple root-fibres. 
Leaves two, one and a half to two inches long in the 
flowering state, greatly enlarged thereafter, attaining eight 
inches, sessile, base sheathing, ovate, obtuse, or apiculate, 
very dark green above, with black blotches, paler beneath, 
and striate. Peduncles few or many, fascicled at the top 
of the stem amongst the leaves; flowering two inches long, 
erect, strict, white, mottled with red; fruiting greatly 
elongating up to six inches, decurved and twisted. lowers 
an inch and more in diameter, erect; perianth deciduous. 
Sepals spreading and recurved, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
white, closely striped with red-brown. Petals as long as 
the sepals, erect, linear, obtuse, red-brown. Stamens 
short, filaments subulate; anthers small, oblong, opening 
extrorsely. Ovary trigonous, three-celled, narrowed into a 
short style, with three linear, spreading stigmas. Capsule 
two-thirds of an inch long, ellipsoid, terminated by the 
persistent style; pericarp thin, bursting irregularly. 
eae ca oblong, rough, with a narrowly winged raphe. 
Fig. 1, Sepal; 2, flower with sepals removed; 3, anthers; 4, ee ae 5 : ae 
—All enlarged; 6, leaf and fruiting pedicels of the natural size. , seed: 
