bicular-reniform, with a broad sinus, obtuse or emarginate, 

 dull pale green above, glaucous below, digitately five- to 

 seven-nerved at the base. False stipules reniform, very 

 deeply two-lobed. Peduncles slender, four times as long as 

 the petioles. Ovary slender, twisted, grooved, expanded at 

 the apex into a dark purple, callous disk, tubercled on the 

 upper surface just below this. Mowers seven to ten inches 

 long, pale green, marbled and reticulated with dark black- 

 purple. Perianth with an obovoid ventricose sac two inches 

 and a half long, which is woolly inside ; tube ascending ob- 

 liquely from the sac, terete, dividing into two very long lips ■ 

 upper lip (lower as the flower hangs) oblong-lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, concave, recurved, hairy inside below the middle ; lower 

 shorter, spathulate, claw long, with recurved margins, blade 

 broadly ovate or orbicular, or almost reniform. Stamens six, 

 equidistant on the almost sessile column.— J. I). H. 



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