measuring six inches across the triangular auricles which 
diverge at right angles. 
The seeds of this lovely plant, collected at Buenos Ayres, 
were brought to Kew by John Ball, Esq., F.R.S., early in 
1883, and the plants raised therefrom flowered in June of 
the same year. a 
Descr. Rootstock tuberous. Leaves numerous ; petiole 
two to three feet long, stout, subcylindric, tapering up- 
wards; blade hastate, with the lobes as long or longer 
than the upper portion, from narrowly oblong to deltoid, 
many-nerved, acute or finely acuminate, basal lobes narrow 
and parallel or triangular and diverging. MALE PEDUNOLE 
two to three feet high, slender; panicle a foot long, with 
many whorls of six to eight flowers in a whorl; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, one-third to one-half of an inch 
long, green; pedicels one to two inches long, decurved 
after flowering. Sepals half an inch long, oblong, concave, 
obtuse, green. -Petals one to one and a half inches broad, 
broader than long, rounded with a subcuneate base, pure 
white with a large marroon spot at the base bordered with 
yellow. Stamens numerous, surrounding a small head of 
abortive ovaries, filaments short papillose. FrMaLE PEDUNCLE 
much stouter, with much shorter pedicels and usually 
broader bracts. Perianth as in the male. Ovaries in a 
globose green head, ovate, compressed, glabrous; style 
subterminal. Achenes most densely packed in a depressed 
globose head almost an inch in diameter, dull green, cuneate, 
with an elongate-subulate style projecting laterally from 
the inner angle, glabrous, eglandular.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Head of stamen; 2 and 3, young stamens; 4, abortive ovaries from the 
male flower; 5, a single achene from the same; 6, head of ripe achenes; 7, achenes; 
8, achene cut open; 9, seed :—all enlarged. 
