inches broad : the petioles are short, grooved above. The 

 peduncles opposite to the leaves,, single-flowered, round, 

 smooth, greenish -white, pendulous, four to seven inches 

 long, generally single on the young branches, or, sometimes 

 two, when one is at the base and the other towards the top. 

 Occasionally the peduncles spring up on the lateral twigs 

 of those branches, at from three to eight inches from the 

 terminal leaves ; these twigs being sometimes but half an 

 inch or an inch and a half long, and bearing three to five 

 leaves. In such cases, the peduncles shoot from the tips of 

 the twigs. Near the summit of the peduncles is a bractea, 

 reflexed when the flower is full blown, subcordate, acute, 

 about twelve-nerved, green, crispato-undulate at the mar- 

 gin, slightly variegated with yellowish-red. Flowers fra- 

 grant ; when beginning to expand, white, marked with 

 purplish-brown spots ; afterwards yellow and the spots 

 brighter red. Calyx monophyllous, tube very short, limb 

 deeply cleft into three unequal, coloured sepals, their mar- 

 gins crisped and waved : the sepal opposite to the bractea 

 being shorter and narrower than the other two, which are 

 somewhat coriaceous and ovato-acute. Corolla inonope- 

 talous, generally twice as long as the calyx ; tube also 

 short and reflexed ; limb divided into six segments, arrang- 

 ed in a double series. Outer segments three, oblongo- 

 ovate, their margins crisped and waved ; of the same color 

 as the calycine segments, the ground bright yellow, marked 

 with rows of irregular spots or interrupted stripes of 

 reddish-brown, extending from the centre obliquely out- 

 wards, the smaller calycine sepal only being sometimes 

 variegated with greenish-yellow along the middle, and deep 

 red at the margins. Inner segments three, from half to 

 one-third shorter than the outer series, springing from the 

 faux of the corolla by a short claw, cordate, convex, veined, 

 yellowish-white externally, somewhat keeled on the back, 

 downy and entire at the edges, which adhere slightly 

 together, within concave, smooth, shining, of a very pale 

 yellow colour, variegated with pale crimson spots. The 

 number of both the calycine and corolline segments is liable 

 to occasional variation, nor does their figure always pre- 

 cisely accord with the above description. 



" Stamens closely set, in about eleven or twelve rows, on 

 the receptacle : filaments none ; anthers nearly spherical, 

 bilocular, yellowish-white, opening on each side, rather 

 below the middle, by a roundish pore : pollen globular, 

 yellowish, semitransparent. Germen nearly sphaerical, yel- 

 lowish- 



