furrowed, dark green coloured with livid-purple; the 
upper and lower with three leaflets; the intermediate with 
five; theuppersimple. Leaflets oval lanceolate, acuminate 
at each end, deeply nerved, with veins coloured beneath; 
the upper simple sessile, placed in the room of bractez, 
cordate-ovate, obtuse. Raceme terminal, corymbose, with 
long, rigid, filiform, spreading pedicel. Sepals ovate acu- 
minate. Petals rosy, with an ovate entire limb. Torus 
fleshy, hemispherical. Stamens nearly equal, spreading 
Ovary cylindrical, slightly rough beneath the microscope, 
placed on a stalk nearly as long as filaments. 
Stigma 
narrower than the ovary. a 
J. L, 
