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a crown close to the root. Cahfx one-leaved, length of the 

 tube of the corol, Hesliy, simple, opening- on one side, or di- 

 viditio- into \\\o unequal portions, on tlie outside tinged with 

 red, on ilie inside white. Coro/ with the tube obliquely cla- 

 vate cnmpiniulate, smooth in every part; inside yellow; 

 tlirodi contracted and triangular; border five-parted, the 

 capsule 1 have not seen yet, the divisions are nearly equal 

 and about as long- as the tube, margins laciniate. Filaments 

 smooth. jJnthers a larger, oblong, white g'land is attached 

 to the base of the iimer pair which appears like a second an- 

 ther. Germ ovate. Sty/e rather longer than the stamens, 

 curved, smooth. Sf if/ma peltate, very large, somewhat three- 

 lobed, glandular, slightly villous. Capsule ovate, one celled, 

 two-valved, Avith two pair of ramons receptacles, to which 

 the numerous, very minute seeds adhere. 



3. O. peihmcnJata. Roxb. 



Smooth. Stem simple. Flowers loug-pedicelled. Califx 

 spathiform. Corols five-parted ; filaments naked. Anthers 

 adhering by pairs, one of the pairs with a long fleshy appen- 

 dao-e. Stigma cordate, peltate. 



A native of Bengal; it appears during the rains, growing- 

 upon the roots of Andropogon mnricatiis. 



Stem short; it may be called the common peduncl eof a 

 raceme, which rises only an inch or two above the surface of 

 the earth, clothed with a few tapering fleshy scales or 

 leaves. Peduncles as long as the stem, ro und, smooth, erect, 

 one-flowered. Bractes no other than the solitary triangular, 

 one-flowered scales or leaves of the stem. Flowers very 

 large. Tube yellowish. Border deep, lovely violet. Calyx 

 one-leaved, spathiiorm, opening by a single longitudinal slit 

 on the interior side, fleshy, smooth on both sides, when young- 

 tinged with n-d, afterwards of a pale yellowish white, replete 

 with a clear clammy liquor. Corol with an inflated, curved, 

 yellow tube, as long as the calyx. Border five-parted ; divi- 

 sions nearly equal, and of a round reniforai shape, with the 



