to one and a quarter inches long, one-half to three-quarters inch 
wide at the broadest part, obovate-spathulate, the petiolar 
part broad green, the blade tumid on the face on either side 
the mesial line, and studded with long red-brown glandular 
hairs, rather fleshy. Scapes several, about equalling the 
leaves, slender, erect and one-flowered, quite glabrous and 
not glandular. /Yower one-half inch to one inch in diameter. 
Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, glabrous, eglandular. Petals 
obcordate-cuneate, white. Stamens quite hypogynous; anther- 
cells separated by the connective. Ovary globose; styles 
split at the base into filiform capitate white filaments.— 
J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Leaves; 3, glandular hair of do.; 4, flower; 5, petal; 6, 
top of pedicel, stamen, and pistil; 7 and 8, stamens; 9, ovary :—all 
magnified, 
