green, with a slight purplish tinge, branched upwards in a 
somewhat dichotomous manner. Branches rounded. Leaves 
on long, rounded, footstalks, cordate, the sides nearly 
equal, plaited, cut into many unequal, very acute lobes, 
and those inciso-serrate, green on both sides, paler beneath, 
above of a full and very bright and glossy green, the 
margin red, perfectly glabrous, as is the whole plant : the 
nerves radiate as it were from the base, without any distinct 
midrib. At the setting on of the leaf are two large con- 
nate, membranaceous bractee. Peduncles terminal, bear- 
ing two or three flowers, which are inclined, drooping 
while in bud. Male-flower of four petals, of which, the 
outer and larger are almost orbicular and red, the two inner 
' obovate, waved, and white. 
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Fig. 1. Cluster of Stamens. 2. Anther: magnified. 
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