part, about 3 inches long, two lower ones often dissected 

 bidi^tately, terminal one the broadest, cnneate at the lower 

 part, not unfrequently trilobedly divided: petiole upright, 

 nearly semicyiindrical, lividly purple at the lower part, 

 about six inches high, much longer than the blade. Stem 

 scarcely eight inches high, flexuose, remotely subtri foliate, 

 of nearly the same thickness, colour, and substance as tlie 

 petioles, furnished with leaves of almost the same foim as 

 the root-ones, only smaller, standing wide of the inflores- 

 cence. Peduncles about two, terminal, racemosely flowered 

 at the upper part ; ^owerj several in a cyme pointing one 

 way, longer than the close-pressedly hirsute pedicles. Califx 

 herbaceous, 5-parted, close-pressed iy furred on the outsi(k*; 

 segments linearly subulate, reflex to the base. Corolla 



. whitish, about one fourth of an inch deep, oblongly campa- 

 nulate, 5-cleft to below the middle; segments of the limb 

 upi*ight oblong obtuse, with a middle dorsal nerve; tube 

 furnished at the inside with five prominently bordered longi- 

 tudinal honeybearing furrows or channels placed alternately 

 with the stamens. Filaments about twice the length of the 

 corolla, equal, upright, filiform, hairy at the middle, in- 

 serted at the base of tlie corolla: anthers oblong, brown, 

 incumbent ; pollen cream-coloured. Germen roughly furred 

 with upright hair, roundish: stifle white, filiform, stiff: 

 stigmas 3 or 2, uprightly spreading, short, round, with 



. frostedly roughened summits. 



The drawing was taken last summer from a plant which 

 had been imported from America by Messrs. Frasei-s, of the 

 Sloane Square nursery; and formed part of that very ex- 

 tensive collection of rare North American plants. 



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