petals nearly white, and the broad wing of the fruit is rose- 
coloured. It flowers in winter. 
Descr. Rhizome short, thick, horizontal. Stems none. Leaf- 
stalk three to five inches long, pale yellow-green tinged with red, 
hispid with patent hairs: at the base is a pair of broad triangular 
stipules. Leaves broad-cordate, with nearly equal sides, deeply 
palmate, with usually seven lobes which are broadly lanceolate, 
more or less acuminate, sinuato-incised, subserrate, ciliated ; be- 
neath slightly hairy, of a pale purplish-green ; above deep green, 
much darker almost black at. the margins. Scapes erect, much 
longer than the leaves, terete, hispid, bearing a moderately large 
panicle or compound raceme. Bracts large, ovate, horizontally 
patent, pale green, membranaceous. Pedicels slender, glabrous. 
Male flowers dipetalous ; the petals white, suborbicular, concave. 
Stamens several, erect. Filaments short. Anthers elongated, 
linear-cuneate. Female flowers dipetalous: the petals nearly 
oval, also white. Fruit green, dotted: the wings rose-colour : 
two of them very short: the third elongated, very large, ob- 
scurely striated. 
Fig. 1. Fruit, scarcely mature :—magnified. 
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