A small plant, sending up a single stem from a tuberous root that lies several inches in the ground; the stem clasped by two sheathing and dull-green leaves, lanceolate, large, quite unequal in size, and peculiarly marked with irregular brownish-purple spots; the stem being really a scape, rising from four to six inches, and bearing on its top a single large nodding flower, of an open and recurved bell-shape, of which the three outer segments are yellow marked with purplish-red, and the three inner quite a clear yellow.

Expectorant, contraceptive (plant); emetic (bulb and fresh leaves); Antiscrofulatic and emollient (leaves).

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