green above, paler below, all radical, subpeltate, cordato-pal- 
mate, hairy above and below, with seven strong radiating 
nerves, very prominent below, lobes lanceolate, oblong, undu- 
late, sinuated, dentate, unegual, the central (four inches from 
the insertion of the petiole to its apex) being the longest, the 
others gradually smaller to the sinus; petiole rather shorter 
than the middle lobe, densely covered with long coarse 
entangled crystalline hairs, which, in fading, resemble 
yellow wool. Scape (two feet high) tapering upwards, 
straight, pretty closely covered with oblong; red streaks, 
from which spring long, tortuous, acute, crystalline hairs. 
Bractee in opposite pairs at each division of the flower- 
stalk, serrated, ovate, hairy, dentato-ciliate, nerved, smaller 
in every succeedíng pair. Peduncles dichotomo-deliguescent, 
streaked like the scape, and somewhat hispid. Flowers 
rose-coloured, dipetalous, petals rotund, entire ; male flowers 
in the cleft of the peduncles, expanding before the female. 
Stamens yellow, ascending; filaments cohering only at the 
base; anthers spathulate ; connective extending beyond the 
loculaments.” 
The fruit, with which neither Messrs. Schlechtendahl and 
Chamisso nor Dr.Graham were acguainted, has three rounded 
wings, of which two are small and green, the third much 
longer, pink, and a little directed upwards. 
