one can question its close affinity with Asarum. It is 
separated from that Genus by the authors just mentioned, 
chiefly on account of the arrangement of its stamens, and 
structure of the anthers, and also because of the nearly 
superior position of the ovary. 
Descr. Stem very short. Leaves two, petiolate ; petiole 
(three and a half inches long) coloured, glabrous, deeply 
channelled above, round below; lamina deeply cordate, 
blunt, slightly waved and reflected at the edges, from the 
blunt auricles to the apex longer than the petiole, dull- 
green, and irregularly blotched with lighter-coloured spots 
on the upper surface, where also it is slightly pubescent, 
especially towards the edges, glabrous, shining, and having 
purple veins and blotches below. Bractea solitary, large, 
embracing the base of the flower on its upper side, cucul- 
late, adpressed, ovate, keeled on its outside toward the 
apex, coloured and ciliated, but otherwise sub-glabrous 
and shining... Flower perfumed somewhat like a ripe apple, 
sessile, as large as a walnut, cartilaginous ; tube spheroid, 
glabrous on the outside, of a dull-purple colour, blotched 
with gray ; limb of darker purple, three-partite, reflected, 
segments large, rounded, undulate, above transversely 
wrinkled, hairy, becoming glabrous towards the throat, 
where the wrinkles are drawn up into thin edges of brighter 
purple, waved, and the outer ones crested with white ; 
throat half closed by a transverse plate of the same struc- 
ture, having a triangular opening in the middle ; Inner sur- 
face ribbed, with honeycomb reticulations between the ribs. 
Stamens twelve ; filaments coloured, very short, reduced 
almost to a lanceolate connective, projecting beyond the 
anther, which consists of two distinct cells, placed on the 
outside and bursting along their outer face ; pollen white, 
granules minute, spherical. Stigma sessile, petaloid, deep 
purple, six-lobed ; lobes obovate, spreading, covering the 
anthers, nearly flat above, keeled below, and above each of 
these prominent angles is placed an erect, ovate, acuminate, 
stigmatic surface, witha cucullate space between. Germen 
half-inferior, six-locular, the cells being placed immediately 
under the stigmatic surfaces, the dissepiment of course un- 
der the cucullate spaces. Ovules about ten, in two rows in 
each loculament, projecting horizontally from central pla- 
cente. Granam. | 
Fig. 1. Vertical section of a Flower :—nat. size. 2. Portion of the inside 
of the Tube of the Perianth. 3. Pistil cut through vertically, showing also 
ee the insertion of the Stamens. 4. Two of the Stamens —magnified. 
