234 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxii 



as much as 5 ciik long increasing to about 11 cm.: blade 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic or oblong sometimes ovate as 

 much as 2'5 cm. long by 2 cm. broad at flowering time, 

 rounded at apex, margin shortly lobulate with obtuse or 

 somewhat truncate and denticulate lobules the teeth 

 glandular and ending in a horny hydathode, green on 

 both surfaces and concolorous, abruptly contracted into a 

 conspicuous slightly winged equally long or slightly shorter 

 petiole with a short open vagina ; upper surface convex 

 rugulose shining and punctulate (not viscid) with capitate 

 stalked uneoloured potentially mealy glands ; under 

 surface reticulately alveolar clad with glands like upper 

 surface but more densely. Scape as much as 8 cm. high 

 (in fruit increasing to 1 2 cm.), 2 mm. in diameter, white- 

 mealy, crowned by a many-flowered somewhat spicate 

 capitulum ; bracts small inconspicuous, lowermost about 

 5 mm. long lanceolate from the base, acuminate glabrous 

 membranous, white with a green tip, hidden by the de- 



rotiiiiflata luargine breviter lobulata lolnilis obtusis vel .subtruncatis et 

 denticiilatis utriiique viridis concolor, sujjra convexa rugulosa glandulis 

 capitatis stipitatis albidis fai-ini-potentibus niteuti-puuctulata baud 

 viscida, subtus reticulatini alveolata glandulis ut sujjra deusius vestita, 

 in petiohxni conspicuuiu leviter alatuiii aequilongum vel paidlo brevioreni 

 .subito contracta petioli vagina bievi aperla. Scapus ad 8 cm. (sub 

 fructn 12 cm.) alius 2 mm. diam. albo-faiinosus capituhim multitlorum 

 subspicatum gerens ; bracteae parvae inconsjjicuae nifimae 5 mm. longae 

 floribus deHexis occultae a basi lanceolalae acuminatae supremae virides 

 inter Hores vix conspicuae. Calyx laete viridis detiexus obliquus tenuis 

 tubum coroUinum subaecpians, tubo subventrico.so jiostice couvexo extus 

 inttis([ue plus minusve farincso, lobis 5 tubum suliaequautibus in- 

 ae(|uaiibus saepe inter se ])1ur ininusve conjuuctis extus intus([ue glabris 

 lobn i)()stico maximo subquadrato lato vertice subtruncato et fimbriato 

 glauduloso-ciliato decurvato (sed fimbriis apicalibus plerum([ue adscen- 

 dentibus) anterodateralibus miuoribus saepe oblongis angustis ad apicem 

 obtusis. Corollae eburneae infundibuliformis extus ex toLo farinosae 

 tubus cyliudricus anguslus tenuis circ. 7-8 mm. longus supra stamina 

 paullo ampliatus exannulatus, lindjus late ampliatus profunde concavus 

 farinosus 5-lobatus, lobi circ. 3"5 mm. longi subtruncati biiidi segmentis 

 approximatis et tindjriatis. Staminum filamenta Ijrevia in Hore brevi- 

 stylo ad os corollinum inserla in (lore longistylo inh'a medium tubi 

 inserta. Ovarium gbjbosum ; stylus brevis vix 1 mm. longus, longus 

 tubum corollinum aequans ; stigma discoideum depressum llavido- 

 album. Capsula globo.sa circ. 2"f) mm. diam. calyce aucto albo-farinoso 

 inclu.sa in dimidio su]jeriore Crustacea infra membranacea valvis 5 ab 

 apice ad medium dehiscens ; semina complanata ovalia discit'ormia 

 circ. I'o mm. louga pallide brunnea, testa ])apillata. 



Species liene distiiicta in .sectione .M uscarioide, inter notas alias 

 corolla eburnea, calyce laete viridi, corollae farinoso-glandulosae tubo 

 longo angusto. 



