the fruit as of a roundish oval form, and of the size of an 

 ordinary Golden Pippin. 



From 4 to 7 feet hii^b, herbaceous, densely furred with 

 upright hair. Leaces distant, soft, yellowisli green, three- 

 lobed, cordately hastate, about 3 inches long, repandly 

 subdentate, the teetli headed by a small bristle or point, 

 5-nerved, shining tbrougli the pubescence at the under 

 side, lol)es acuminate : petioles glandless, tbickish, round- 

 isii, nerved, nearly twice shorter than the blade: stipules 

 broadly semisagittate, herbaceous, short, eiliately multifid. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, very tender, very fugacious, 

 about 2 inches over: peduncles glandless, filiform, stiff, 

 3 times slenderer but longer than the petiole, shorter 

 than the leaf, spreading. Involucre herbaceous, larger 

 than the flower, of three leaflets, yellowish green, very close 

 to the calyx. Calyx ratlier tender, dinted at the base, very 

 shallowly urccolate, greenish on the outside, white on the 

 inside ; segments oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved underneath, with 

 the middle nerve carinately prominent hairy and terminating 

 in a hornshaped point. Petals very tender, all white, placed 

 at the mouth of the tube of the calyx, equal to and of the 

 same shape as the segments of that. Crown radiantly 

 outspread, variegated with white and violet : outer rays 

 of two rows, longest, filiform, flexuose; inner ones placed 

 at their base, very short, of several rows, subulate, com- 

 pact. Nectary slightly two-chambered : outer wall spring- 

 ing from the toot of the shaft of the fructification, slightly 

 coloured, deepish, quite entire, converging obliquely to- 

 wards the short white denticulated operculum or cover. 

 Shaft of the fructification yellowish green, dotted with 

 purple. Styles whitish, widespread, clavate : stigmas nearly 

 globular, green, nutant. Germen ovate, green, quite 

 smooth, but little larger than the stigmas. 



In the West Indies it is called " Love in a Mist," from 

 the appearance of the uuexpanded flower when enclosed in 

 its curiously feathered involucre. 



