nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith, 
from amongst several that flowered in April, and which had 
been newly imported from Lisbon. 
Root tuberous, oblong, perpendicular. Leaves 5 or more, 
radical, substantial, biting when tasted, roundly cordate or 
sometimes approaching to reniformly orbicular, 3-lobed, 
villous, crenulate, 5-nerved, veined underneath, and usu- 
ally purple; middle lobe smallest, lateral ones themselves 
obsoletely lobed: petioles thinly pubescent, channelled 
above, cucullately continuous with the blade. Stem about 
a span high, roughly pubescent, brownish purple, simple 
and oneflowered, or proliferous and twoflowered. Involucre 
at the base of the peduncle, triple-leafletted, sessile, spread- 
ing, ciliate; leaflets obverse, threecleft, segments cuneate 
with three incisions. Peduncle long, villous, hairs silky 
ferruginous close-pressed. Corolla before expansion droop- 
ing, opening upright, imbricately radiate, two inches over, 
of a golden yellow on the inside: petals 12 in 2 ranks, 
subcuneately oblong, narrow, with a short broad point : al- 
ternate external ones (calycine) rather the longest, sulphur 
coloured at the back and silky, the hair ferruginous ; ?nter- 
nal ones (corollaceous) of the same colour at the back as 
the others, but thinly pubescent. Stamens 3 times shorter 
than the corolla inserted round the receptacle of the fruit. 
Pistils numerous, closely set upon а fleshy cylindrically 
elevated receptacle, which they conceal: germens with the 
appearance of ovules, compressed, ovate, beaked, pubescent; 
style setaceous, smooth, deep yellow; stigma a simple point. 
Capsules like so many naked seeds; one-celled, monosper- 
mous, remaining unopened. 
