Plants of it have been received at Kew from Max Leichtlin, 
of Carlsruhe ; and from N. Elwes, Esq., the latter of which 
flowered in the spring of the present year in the open border. 
Descr. Quite glabrous. LRootstock a depressed subter- 
ranean sphere, from the size of a nut to a small apple, pale 
yellow-brown, with stout root-fibres from the periphery. 
Leaves 4-10 inches long, all radical, spreading and recurved, 
pinnate, rachis slender ; pinnules 3-8 pair, opposite, or 
ternate or whorled (from the fission of one or more of each 
pair), very variable in size and form, 1-14 inch long, sessile, 
obcuneate or oblong, trifid rarely entire; lobes acute or 
obtuse, base rounded or wedge-shaped, green and often red- 
purple towards the base. Scape stout, 4-10 inches high, 
paniculately branched ; bracts oblong, obtuse, deciduous, 
pedicels curved. Flowers drooping, 3-1 inch in diameter ; 
outer sepals 3, nearly orbicular, greenish bordered with 
pink ; tzner and petals very much larger, obcuneate-obovate, 
crenate, golden-yellow. Filaments short; anthers linear- 
oblong, with linear recurved valves. Ovary ovoid, wrinkled ; 
style very short; stigma peltate, lobed; ovules 5-6, in- 
clined on long, stout, curved, basal funicles. Capsule blad- 
dery, several-seeded.—.J.D.H. 
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Fig. 1, Petal; 2, stamen; 8, outer sepals, disk, and ovary ; 4, vertical section of 
ovary :—all enlarged. 
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