that here figured flowered with the late Walter Beck of Isle- 
worth, a zealous and accomplished horticulturist and most 
estimable man, whose recent decease is mourned by a large 
circle of naturalists. In both cases the leaves appeared some 
weeks before the flowers. 
Descr. Root-stock the size of a small carrot, base buried, 
erect, rich brown in colour, with flaking bark, crowned with a 
whorl of lanceolate-subulate spreading stipules a quarter to 
half an inch long. Leaves glabrous, fleshy, on long or short 
petioles, broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, pale green, paler 
below, margins lobulate and obscurely irregularly toothed, 
sometimes multifid ; petiole long or short. Scapes one or 
two, dichotomously branched, three to six inches high, rather 
stout, and as well as the calyces clothed with scattered very 
fine spreading soft hairs. Bracts like the stipules, spreading 
and whorled at the joints and base of the peduncles. ~ZVowers 
umbelled, numerous, one and a half to two inches in diameter, 
pale yellow. Calya-tube and pedicel together one to three 
inches long, very slender, strict, hairy ; lobes half to three- 
quarters of a inch long, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate. Petals 
widely spreading ; two upper spathulate, retuse, long-clawed, 
with purple veins; three others smaller, narrow, without 
veins. Stamens five, declinate ; anther orange.—J. D. H. 
