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with long petioles ; lamina elliptic-ovate or almost rounded 

 as much as 4 cm. long and broad, rounded at apex, usually 

 7-lobed the lobes unequally lobulate each lobule obtuse 

 rounded or somewhat truncate its mid-vein ending in a 

 red point, base cordate with usually a closed sinus, upper 

 surface opaque dark green convex, under surface more or less 

 red prominently venulose ; petiole much longer than lamina 

 about 9 cm. long red, terete but for a slightly grooved 

 upper surface, swollen at very base into a vaginal cushion. 

 Scape as much as 15 cm. high bearing a terminal umbel 

 and one or two lower whorls of flowers usually about 5-6 in 

 a whorl or umbel ; bracts linear acute about 1 cm. long and 

 1 mm. broad, green with a red vagina; pedicels unequal 

 2-4 cm. long spreading red, attached to centre of slightly 

 hollowed broad base of calyx. Calyx inversely funnel- 

 shaped about 5-6 mm. long (enlarging in fruit) about half 

 the length of the corolla-tube which is glandular-puberulous 

 outside, inflated at base and thei-e about 5-6 mm. in 

 diameter, narrowed upwards and divided to bej^ond middle 

 into 5 adpressed elongated triangular obtuse or acute lobes 

 often paler than the green tube. Corolla white, lilac, or 

 rose with a yellow-green eye glandular-puberulous through- 



subtus concava plus minusve rulna proiiiinenter venosa ; petiohis lamina 

 niulto longior ad 9 cm. longus ruber crassus teres sed supra paullo 

 sulcaLus basi in vaginam pulvinatam incras.«atam expansus. Scapus ad 

 15 cm. altus umbellam terminalem et verticillos 1-2 ad 6-tloros gerens ; 

 bracteae lineare< acutae circ. 1 cm. longae 1 mm. latae virides basi in 

 vaginam subamplexicaulem pulvinatam expansae ; pedicelli in quaque 

 umbella vel verticillo variabiles nunc 4 cm. iongi nunc 2 cm. ad centrum 

 fundi calycini intrusum late aftixi rubri patentes. Calyx obinfundi- 

 buliformis extiTs intusque glandulosus glanduli.s stijiitatis, basi inHatus 

 ibique circ. 5-0 mm. latus sursum angustatus sub anthesi circ. 5^6 mm. 

 longus (demiun auctus) tubo corollino dimidio brevior ultra medium 

 5-l(jl)atus lobis elongate- triangularibus obtusis ad corollam adpressis 

 tubo viridi iiallidioribus. Corollae extus conspersim glandulesae tubus 

 cylindricus supra stamina ampliatus m Hore longistylo circ. 1 cm. in 

 flore brevistylo circ. 1-4 cm. longus albidus et flavido-tinctus extus 

 glanduloso-puberulus iiitus glaber exannulatus fauce circularis, limbi 

 plani patentis discus fiavido-viridi-oculatus substrumosus r5 mm. latus 

 >uiDra glanduloso-puberulus, lobi 5 obcordati albi vel violacei vel rosei 

 profunde emarginati. Stamina in tiore longistylo basim versus in tlore 

 brevistylo supra medium tubi corollini antherarum apicibus ab ore 

 3"5 mm. remotis inserta antheris angustis t'ere sessilibus circ. 2 mm. 

 longis. Ovarium fere globosum viride ; stylus albidus, longus inclusus 

 calycem superans, l)revis vix calycem ae(pians ovario duplo longior ; 

 sligma pallide viride capitatum. 



Species P. sinensi, Lindl. atfinis calyce sursum abrupte contracto lobis 

 sepalinis adpressis, corollae limbo minore inter notas alias rerognoscenda. 



