are themselves so variable that authors differ widely as to their — 
nomenclature and synonymy; its best character appears to 
reside in its strongly toothed calyx-lobes. The figure in the 
‘Flore des Serres’ represents a huge overfed garden form of 
the plant, quite unlike any indigenous specimens. 
Descr. Tuber very large, four to ten inches in diameter. 
Leaves two to two and a half inches long, ovate-cordate, ob- 
scurely or shallowly and acutely angled, obtusely coarsely 
toothed, dull green, marbled with paler green, pale beneath ; 
petioles and scapes red. Calya pubescent, 5—6-fid ; lobes 
broadly ovate, acuminate, toothed, green-veined. Corolla 
nearly white, with a faint rose-purple tinge; segments five 
to six, deep purple at the base, one inch long.—J. D. ZH. 
