rounded, brown sheaths. Leaflets at the summit of the 

 petiole, two in opposite pairs and an odd one, subsessile, 

 elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate, dark-green, irregularly- 

 serrate ; terminal two to two and a quarter inches long, rather 

 longer than the others, more narrowed at the base, sometimes 

 obscurely lobed ; cauline leaves similar, but shortly petioled ; 

 more rarely the leaves have five to six pairs of leaflets, when 

 the upper pair are broader, sometimes lobed at the base, and 

 the lower pairs are alternate, and exceedingly irregular in 

 size and form. Flowers one and a half to two inches in 

 diameter, yellow, axillary, usually in pairs ; pedicel one to 

 one and a half inches long, erect ; buds inclined, ovoid, acu- 

 minate. Sepals membranous, very deciduous. Petals broadly 

 obovate, spreading, rounded at the tip. Stamens short, orange- 

 yellow. Capsule one and a half to two inches long, very 

 slender, terete. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, ovary : — both magnified. 



