the compliment.” This Gesnera was at the same time 
accompanied by a great number of Eprpnyrss, and above 
thirty bulbs of AmMaryiuipem, which Mr. Waites cultivates 
with many other rarities in his well-kept garden near 
Newcastle ; the flowering season is October. 
Descr. “ The root is a large roundish, depressed, uneven 
tuber, measuring more than three feet in circumference, and 
about an inch and a half thick. The stems are herbace- 
ous, numerous, erect, about two feet and a half high: the 
branches short, not bearing flowers: they and the leaves 
are ternate.” ‘The latter (except the upper ones, which 
suddenly pass into bracteas) are petiolate; all of them 
ovate, rather obtuse, crenate, thickly downy, velvety above 
and dark green, pale beneath. Pedicels about an inch and 
three-quarters long, slender, simple, villous. Calyx short, 
cut into five ovate, hairy segments. Corolla downy, rich 
scarlet, shorter than the pedicels, forming a nearly straight 
cylindrical tube, the limb a little spreading, of five, very 
obtuse, nearly equal lobes, the base dilated, very gibbous 
above. Style and Stamens about equal in length to the 
corolla, Germen with five yellow, hypogynous glands, the 
ree lower small, the two upper combined into one large 
gland. 
Fig. 1. Pistil with hypogynous Glands —magnified. 
