neath, peduncles, and calyces, hispid with copious, spreading, 
long, soft, villous setz, often of a rich purple tint, mixed with 
short white hairs. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate, glabrous, shining, 
lateral ones obliquely ovate, terminal one larger, broadly obovate 
or rhomboid, all strongly veined, lobed (not very deeply), and 
strongly serrated at the margin, dark green above, much paler 
beneath ; petiolules short, hispid. Stipules large, submembrana- 
ceous, oval or oblong, often incised at the apex. Peduncles 
single-flowered, generally solitary, but sometimes two or three 
together, and then terminal. FYowers large, handsome, very like a 
small white rose. Calyx (in bud globoso-acuminate) of five, ovate, 
very much acuminated sepals, longer than the corolla, united into 
a cup at the base, externally rich purple, densely villous or hispid. 
with long, soft, patent, purple setee, the apices green, and often 
slightly pinnatifid and subfoliaceous. Pefa/s subrotund, white, 
very spreading. Stamens numerous. Filaments erect, or only 
slightly patent, filiform. Anthers oval, yellow, terminated by 
a large, globose, pedicellated gland or appendage. Ovaries se- 
veral, obliquely ovate, glabrous. Style as long as the filaments 
of the stamens. Stigma expanded, concave, villous at the mar- 
gin. Fruit, in the dried specimens, scarcely pulpy. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
