quite glabrous, dark green above, with a pale spot at the inser- 
tion of the petiole, from which a few indistinct nerves radiate, 
deep blood-red beneath, with the nerves slightly prominent. 
Scapes radical, longer than the petiole, about as thick and of the 
same colour as it, bearing a dichotomous corymé of drooping, deep 
rose-red flowers ; at the setting-on of the branches a pair of op- 
posite small stipules are present. Hach fork generally bears one 
male and one female flower. Male flower of four spreading sepals, 
two (opposite) larger and orbicular, the two smaller oblong- 
spathulate. Stamens a small head of many nearly sessile oval 
anthers. Female flower of three sepals, two large, and a small, 
oblong-spathulate one. The fruit (nearly mature) is bright red, 
triangular, obovate, with a narrow rounded wing at two of the 
angles, and a much broader rounded one at the third angle. 
Style short. Stigma sinuato-lobate. 
Fig. 1. Fruit :—magnified. 
