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withered leaves of previous years. The roots from the 

 small rhizome delicate in relation to the mossy soil of its 

 native habitat. Leaves as much as 4 cm. long and 2 cm. 

 broad oblong or oblong-oval or oblong-elliptic rounded at- 

 apex irregularly toothed on margin the teeth ending in 

 conspicuous hydathodes, base more or less narrowed to a 

 hardly distinct petiole, primary veins feathered and ascend- 

 ing, upper surface sparingly lower surface densely coated 

 with yellow meal. Scape short as much as 3 cm. long 

 stoutish and like the bracts and pedicels yellow-mealy, 

 bearing an umbel of as many as 18 flowers which open 

 one or two at a time in succession ; bracts ovate oblong- 

 lanceolate keeled and cucullate, as much as 7 mm. long; 

 pedicels stiff stoutish spreading, as much as 2 cm. long; 

 anthopode top-shaped often 1 mm. long. Calyx narrowly 

 campanulate as much as 7 mm. long 5-ribbed, the sinuses 

 not thinner, with yellow meal outside and inside, split to 

 about the middle into 5 oblong or oblong-ovate acute lobes 

 their midrib and lateral ascending veins conspicuous with- 

 out evident terminal hydathode. Corolla red-violet with 

 yellow eye, coated outside where exposed with yellow meal, 

 somewhat membranous ; tube cylindric tinted red, in short- 

 styled flower about 1"4 cm. long, in long-styled about 

 1'2 cm., transversely rugose the uppermost ridges at the 

 throat swollen into a sort of annulus, disk of the limb 

 yellow about To mm. broad most minutely puberulous ; 

 lobes as much as 1 cm. long and broad imbricate obovate 

 or somewhat obcordate deeply bifid the segments divaricate. 

 Stamens with very short filaments, the anthers about 

 2'5 rimi. long, ochre-coloured with purple connective, in 

 short-styled flower inserted near top of corolla-tube the 

 anther-tip about 1"5 mm. from the mouth, in long-styled 

 flower near base of corolla about equalling the calyx. 



obloii','o-ovatis acuLis. Corolla rubro-violacea luteo-oculata extiis luteo- 

 farinosa tnbo in fiore brevLstylo circ. 1'4 cm. luiigo, in longistylo circ. 

 1*2 cm., ore striimo.so p.seudo-annulato, lobis obovatis vel subobcordatis 

 circ. 1 cm. longis bifidis. StamiMa in tiore brevistylo prope os corollae 

 in.serta in longistylo prope basim. Stylus longu.s inclusus stigniate ab 

 ore corollae circ. 2-5 nun. remoto, I)ievis calyce paullo brevior ; stigma 

 di.scoideo-capitatum. 



Species I'. Tnemhranifoliae, Franch, affinis folii.s fere sessilibus, 

 pedicellis calyceque nnilto brevioribus, corolla el'arinosa inter notas 

 alias facile distinguenda. 



