No. 35. SRYTEROmnm. 169 



dentate near the base : Stigma with three united 

 lobes. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, a solid pyriform 



the 



g the base 



the Stem, fibres of the root inferior, thick and short. 

 Stem partly under ground with two leaves appearing 

 radical because near the ground, the whole plant 

 smooth and shining ; Stem white below, greenish pur- 

 ple above, slender cylindrical from five to twelve inches 

 long, two sessile leaves: on the first year of the 

 growth only one leaf is produced, and it is commonly 

 broader and elliptic. Leaves a little unequal, one 

 being commonly narrower or smaller, they are from 

 three to seven inches long, lanceolate or oval-lanceo- 

 late, shining and glabrous, veinless and with a single 



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nerve, often spotted by large irregular spots of a dull 

 brown above, pale and unspotted below, and with 



an obtuse callous point, 



A single flower at the end of the Stem, one inch 

 long, nodding, of a yellow colour, sometimes with a 

 mixture of red outside by a stripe or veins on the 

 external sepals or petals, which are lanceolate reflect- 

 ed» sometimes acute, while the inner ones are oblong 

 lanceolate, obtuse, quite yellow, veinless, with a cal- 

 lous notch on each side at the base, and a furrow in 

 the middle above the fossule or little pitt of the base, 

 above the Stamina, which are inserted quite at the 

 base, shorter than the sepals, yellow, with depressed 

 subulate filaments, and depressed linear anthers. Germ 

 turbinate triangular. Style fistulose, Stigma clavate 



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