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ramis numerosissimis clavatis et falcatis cum rainulis falcatis obsessa. Extus 

 et intus lutea vel pleromate aurantiaco, cortice flavo temporis decursu 

 sordide aurantiaca. Radices filipenduli longe stipitati interdum intus toti lutei. 



Folia aduUa longe petiolata subobovato-Ianceolata 2.5 X 'ongiora quam 

 lata, versus apicem rotundato-attenuata sat abrupte acuminata, basi latius- 

 cula in petiolum canaliculatum sensim constricta. Ligula cum margine 

 vaginae puberulo ciliata lobis lateraliter vix prominentibus. 



Inflorescentia raro longa, pro ratione lata, cum pedunculo vaginis 

 incluso longitudine varia. Bracteae externae vulgo 2 cassae, folium pedunculare 

 nullum, Bracteae florentes late ovatae acutiusculae, late patentes etsubrecurvae, 

 dilute virides vel pallide flavo-virides baud rubro-maculatae. Bracteae comae 

 antice punctulato et striulato-lilacinae, basi colore pallidiore et viridi-commixto. 



Bracteolae vulgo tubum corollae paullum superantes apice viridiusculae. 

 Flores dilute cremeae lobo mediano flavo, petala dilute rosea. Calyx tubi 

 corollae fere ^/g aequans, dentibus subtruncatis. Staminodia elliptica. 



The bulb of a 3 months old plant, which already flowered, was 

 80 X 40, the 6 lowest rings already stripped of the leaves; numerous clavate 

 rhizomes (110X25) originate from this tuber; two opposite continue to 

 grow horizontally in a vertical plane and form new merithallia and plants, 

 so that sometimes five flower-bearing plants lay in one row, which 

 develop alternately from the inside to the outside. The branches of all 

 degrees grow upwards in a curve. The colour of the young rhizomes is 

 bright-orange-yellow (161) the tops are white. The old tuber and old 

 rhizomes are, at least in one specimen examined, bright-orange almost 156, 

 pleroma sometimes 151, bark 161. The young and growing parts 161 to 176. 



The tubers are pendulous on long fibres, their colour is in one of 

 our specimens quite orange-yellow on the section, nearly as in C. xan- 

 thorhiza, but not so dark. 



The leaves are different in shape from those of the apparently very 

 similar C. colorata, though the young plants resemble each other very 

 much. In both the base is broadly rounded and the midrib on the upper- 

 side more or less dark-red-brown coloured, without passing of the colour 

 over the parenchyma; in both this red colour becomes more faint during the 

 growth and the young plants seem then superficially quite green, the 

 colour, however, does not vanish entirely. But there is in the shape of the 

 full-grown leaves an important difference with C. colorata. The greatest 

 width is here always above the middle and the leaf-edge passes with a 

 rather wide bow to the top which is narrowed into the acumen. Also !he 

 average broadth of the leaf is always greater than in C. colorata. E.g. In 

 a young plant: 570X 195: P = ^.3. 530X205: P= 2.5. 500 X 198; P = * 

 2.5. 460X180 190: P. 2.6. 450X 170 160: P. 2.6. 400X 160 100: P. 2.5. 

 260 X 120 45: P. 2.1. 



