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the thickness of a crow-quill. eaves usually deeply trifid, 
occasionally 5-lobed, base subcordate or distinctly cordate 
with a wide sinus; lobes ovate or ovate-elliptical, entire, or 
the median lobe with a broad obtuse lateral tooth on each 
side, acute or broadly pointed, glabrous, membranous, one 
and a half to two and a half inches long and broad. Petiole 
rather shorter than the blade, eglandular, glabrous. Stipules 
subulate. Flowers axillary, solitary, widely spreading, scarlet, 
about two and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle one inch 
more or less, with a few scattered subulate bracteoles. 
Sepals 5, narrowly oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, one inch 
long. Petals one-third to half as long as sepals, oblong. 
Outer corona of a single series of slender erect filaments. 
Inner corona vouch shorter than the outer, membranous, 
deeply plicate, contracted at the mouth, shortly softly villous, 
like the outer pale yellow or whitish—(I have not fresh flowers 
for examination, but Mr. Fitch represents an intermediate 
series of short filaments in the corona, fig. 1). Gynophore 
exserted, three-quarters of an inch long.—D. 0. 
Fig. 1, Transverse section of corona and base of gynophore :—enlarged. 
