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panded at these periods, when the scape has just appeared above 
ground. The leaf-stalks, which are thicker than the scape, are long, 
and arise from the same part of the root, This has relation to a 
plant in the state of forwardness represented in the plate. In com- 
mon, by the time the flower is expanded, the leaf-stalk is not more 
than half the length of the scape ; and it then supports a small con- 
voluted leaf, with its lower lobes embracing this part. Both the 
leaf-stalks and scape, which are encircled at their origin from the 
pe by § a common sheath, are of an orange colour, deepest towards 
junction with the caudex, and becoming paler near to the leaves 
a flowers, where it is blended with green. When broken. or 
squeezed, they emit a coloured liquor like that of the root, but 
paler. The stain made by this fluid on paper, is a faint yellow. 
When this plant first comes up, the young leaf is rolled round both 
scape and flower-bud ; and not unfrequently, the flower is opened 
immediately over the convoluted leaf. The under side of this leaf 
is glaucous, the disk pale yellowish green, and on both sides the 
orange-coloured veins are very conspicuous. . In favourable situa- 
tions the plant has often one or two expanded leaves like that in 
e | late 5 and these are also of a pale green colour on their upper 
ace , and glaucous or bluish-white underneath, interspersed: on 
either side with numerous orange-coloured veins, The whole plant 
becomes much increased in size after the flowering is passed about 
a month; frequently attaining at this period, the height of fifteen 
‘inches, but commonly not exceeding twelve. The leaves are then 
enlarged to twice or.thrice the. size of that in the plate; are heart- 
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