232 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxii 



broad, dentate all round, the teeth often denticulate ending 

 in a liorny hydathode and most minutely gland-ciliate, base 

 more or less wedge-shaped and abruptly contracted into 

 the long petiole, upper surface bright green smooth the 

 mid-rib conspicuousl}" grooved primary veins few sunk 

 in the lamina ascending, under surface pale green the mid- 

 rib whitish and with primary veins prominent, on both 

 surfaces powdered with stalked meal-forming glands ; 

 petiole as much as 10 cm. long narrow scarcely winged 

 slightly expanded at base clad with meal-forming glands. 

 Scape as much as 25 cm. high (lengthening somewhat in 

 fruit) slender and like the bracts and pedicels coated with 

 white meal, bearing a terminal 2-4-flowered umbel and 

 sometimes a 2-4-flowered whorl below it ; bracts erect 

 adpressed about 5 mm. long green or purpling involucrate 

 oblong narrowed to the obtuse apex slightly keeled, at the 

 base slightly thickened not spurred ; pedicels varying in 

 length longest as much as 4 cm. long, those of the lower 

 whorl shortest, .straight and erect below nodding at the 

 top ; anthopode about 1 mm. long white farinose. Flowers 

 fragrant. Calyx green or more or less purple as much as 

 5 mm. long whitely mealy both outside and inside broadly 

 fusiform 5-grooved split to the middle into 5 connivent 

 lobes. Corolla pale lilac with golden eye, oblique, expanded 

 vertically; tube of the short-styled flower about 1'5 cm. 

 long straw-coloured cylindric, swollen and deeper coloured 

 above the insertion of stamens, more or less mealy outside, 

 rugulose inside, at the throat encircled by orange-coloured 

 puberulous pouchings (as many as 15) which hardly form 

 an annulus ; limb somewhat reflexed with a disk about 

 1 5 mm. broad and 5 broad obcordate imbricate bifid lobes 

 aljout 6 mm. long more or less crenulate, puberulous towards 

 the base above, more or loss farinose beneath. Stamens in 

 short-styled flower inserted close to mouth of corolla- tube ; 

 filaments conspicuous not expanded at base straw-coloured ; 

 anthers about 2 mm. long not crested but with slightly 

 hairy whitish connective, scarcely protruding from corolla- 

 tube. Ovary br-oadly globose green ; short style pale green 

 longer than the cal^'x ; stigma green capitate and depressed. 

 Capsule cyh'ndric about 1 cm. long and 3 mm. in diameter 

 without a styiopod, lower part included in calyx, crustaceous 



