An inhabitant of Nepaul, and communicated by Di* Carey 
of Serampore to the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, where it 
flowered in the stove in October 1824, and whence a specimen, 
with a sketch of the living plant, were sent to me by Mr H. 
Shepherd. 
The structure of these flowers is highly curious ; each, 
taken separately, having no inconsiderable resemblance, both 
in colour and form, to the spatha of the Pothos violacea. 
Not being able to discover any already established genus 
at all corresponding with this plant, I have derived the present 
appellation from ccviffog, unequal, and cferaXoi', the petal; from 
the great disparity in the size of the inner and outer petals. 
This species is dedicated to the eminent individual to whom 
the Liverpool garden owes the introduction of it. 
Fig. 1. Single fl ower. Fig. 2. Anterior petal. Fig. 3. One of the poste- 
rior petals. Fig. 4. Flower deprived of the three outer petals, shewing 
the two inner ones, the column and the lip. Fig. 5. Front view of the 
column, with the two inner petals. Fig. 6. Lip removed from Fig. 5. 
Fig. 7. Anther-case. Fig. 8. Pollen-masses.— J!// more or less magnified. 
