Gardneriane. N. O. Urticez. 
TAB. CCCXCIX. 
Dorsvrenia ASAROIDES. Gardn. Mss. 
Acaulis subpubescens, radicis trunco elongato squamoso radicu- 
las emittentes, foliis longe petiolatis reniformibus crenato- 
dentatis, scapis petiolo brevioribus, receptaculis hemispheeri- 
cis concavis margine lobato inflexo. 
Has. Dry woods about Villa de Crato. Brazil; Mr Gard- 
ner, (n, 2001.) 
This pretty species, whose leaves bear so strong a resem- 
blance in shape to those of Asarum Europeum, may rank next 
to the Dorstenia tubicina, figured at Tab. 2804 of the Botanical 
Magazine. The root is thick, between fleshy and woody, 
toothed below, clothed with membranous scales above: from 
the sides of this root or trunk descend several branching fibres, 
and in one case there is a pendent stalked tuber from the bot- 
tom. Leaves two or three from the top of the root, quite reni- 
form, membranous, toothed, beneath, as is the petiole and in- 
florescence, more or less downy, especially in the young state. 
From the same point of the root arise the scapes or peduncles, 
2—4, shorter than the peduncles, and expanding at the nis 
into a hemispherical or shallow cup-shaped fleshy —— a 
the margin lobed and involute: the concave disk studded wit 
minute flowers, as in the genus. 
Fig. 1. Receptacle. J. 2. Small portion of do., with two fe- 
male flowers :—magnified. 
