Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — A Curious Plant. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Plant.

There is a strange plant With a curious flower, growing in the damp valleys of New Granada, called . “Masderalfia chimtera. ” It is one of the unique productions of the vegetable kingdom. This plant has a dense cluster of thick leaves; the slender fipwer stems creep along and flower under the moss or leaves. The flower end is divided into three lobes and is whitish in color, with irregular spots of pink. So fantastic is this flower that a writer in La Nature says: “In looking at this strange flower one sees the colors of a noctural bird, the form of a large spider in the middle, with two small piercing black eyes.” To everything fair in this world it has pleased God to affix some bitterness. 1