inclined or erect, as thick as a goose-quill, cylindric, red. Leaves 
two to four pairs, two to three inches diameter, opposite, con- 
nate by their short broad petioles, very fieshy, flat, horizontal, 
slightly concave above, orbicular or subreniform, margin lobu- 
late, the lobules crenulate, upper surface bright green with 
broad flabellate whitish nerves that are not impressed, under- 
surface blood-red, with very faint nerves. Scape terminal, four 
to six inches high, slender, strict, erect, with a few subulate 
scales, pale-pink. Cyme one to two inches in diameter, many- 
flowered, sub-3-chotomously divided; bracts and bracteoles 
minute, subulate, pedicels one-eighth to one-third of an inch 
Jong. Howers one-fourth of an inch in diameter, very pale flesh- 
coloured. Sepals ovate-oblong, green, with a gland at the back 
below the tip ofeach. Pedals of the same shape, but three 
times larger, subacute, spreading. Authers globose, red-brown. 
LHypogynous-scales minute. Carpels ellipsoid, narrowed into 
straight short styles.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Margin of leaf; 2, flower; 3, the same, with the corolla removed ; 
4, carpels and hypogynous scales :—all magnified, 
