tures, bright green above with a pale red midrib, pale 

 green beneath ; nerves six to ten pairs, strong beneath ; 

 petiole one and a half to two inches long, stout, red, with 

 two small tubercles (stipular) at the base and a few red 

 bristles towards the top on each side of the median furrow. 

 Peduncles solitary or binate in the leaf -axils, erect, longer 

 than the petioles, pale reddish. Flowers one inch long ; 

 perianth concave, golden yellow, streaked with red within. 

 Sepals three, two lateral orbicular, apiculate, concave, 

 greenish yellow, dorsally keeled; dorsal erect, galeate, 

 with recurved margins and a minute dorsal spur below 

 the tip. Petals five; lateral connate in pairs, upper 

 lobes of each pair transversely oblong with recurved 

 margins, lower much smaller, rounded ; dorsal petal 

 hemispheric, tip beaked, obtusely two keeled on the back, 

 the keels ending in two divergent recurved very short 

 spurs. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Spurred petal; 2, stamens ; 3, ovary : — All enlarged. 



