inches long, very numerous, twice or thrice pinnately 
divided; segments narrow or broad, more or less deeply 
cut into linear obtuse or cuneate or irregularly rounded cut 
and toothed segments; petiole stiff. Peduncles one to 
three from the nodes of the stem, one to two inches long, 
stiff, erect, curved at the top. lowers one-half to three- 
fourths of an inch long, between cylindric and campanulate, 
white, base rounded. Sepals linear-oblong, coherent by 
their slightly overlapping margins, tips shortly recurved, 
eo or subacute. filaments dilated below, hairy.— 
Je DoH, 
Fig. 1, longitudinal section of the flower ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4,carpel ; 5, stigma : 
mall enlarged, 
