November, 1840, under the MSS. name adopted. Mr. 
James M‘Naz tells me it is there cultivated in the open 
ground, forming an edging to the walks. With us, it 
flowered in the greenhouse, and continued in beauty during 
many weeks. At Berlin, in the open air, it was not above 
nine inches high, with us more than twice as much. 
Descr. Leaves all radical, digitate ; petioles round, red, 
pretty densely covered with long, spreading hairs, termi- 
nating in an abrupt, somewhat callous apex ; leaflets seven 
to nine (three inches long, one broad), springing from 
callous bases around the edge of the apex of the petiole, 
elliptico-spathulate, quite entire at the apex and edges, 
undulate, rather coarsely veined, of dark green, and dis- 
tantly sprinkled with long, spreading hairs above, below 
paler spotted with crimson and glabrous, except on the 
strong middle rib and veins, where there are hairs rather 
more numerous but shorter than on the upper surface of 
the leaf. Scapes rather larger than the petioles and twice 
as tall, paler red or greenish, fistulous only at the base, 
tapering towards the apex, having hairs similar to those 
on the petioles, but scarcely so numerous, umbellate, many 
(about twenty) flowered. Bracts formed into an involucre 
of several unequal, diaphanous scales. Flowers large and 
handsome, developed in succession, crimson, especially on 
the inside, and where the petals overlap each other, the 
exposed part of the outer side being paler than the rest. 
Sepals linear- elliptical, blunt, green, covered externally 
with glandular hairs, and having at the apex four orange- 
coloured lines, which coalesce upwards. Petals nearly 
thrice as long as the sepals, with very fine, glandular 
pubescence on the outside, obovate, entire, attenuated and 
greenish at the base, cohering above their insertion. Sta- 
mens ten, unequal, the shorter simple and about as long as 
the styles, the longer toothed on the outside, covered with 
glandular pubescence, and scarcely exceeding the length 
of the sepals; anthers yellow, elliptical, attached by the 
middle, turned outwards, and bursting longitudinally. Pis- 
ail everywhere glabrous and green: germen oblong, of five 
lobes ; styles short, stout, furrowed on their inside, divari- 
cated from their origin ; stigmas large, warted. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Sepal. 2. Stamens, including the Pistil. 3. Portion of the Sta- 
mens :—magnvfied. 
