with long soft gland-tipped hairs, very viscid. Stem eight 
to twelve inches high, terete, very robust, but rather 
succulent. Leaves ; lower densely rosulate, upper attenuate, 
and all very broadly petioled; petiole two inches long, 
gradually dilated from the base to the insertion of the 
blade, where it is one-third of an inch broad ; upper surface 
concave, margins raised; blade reniform, deeply three- 
lobed, or with the lateral lobes bifid and then five-lobed; 
lobes cuneately flabelliform, coarsely crenate or lobulate; 
upper leaves shortly petioled, simply flabelliform, or cunei- 
form ; uppermost or floral sessile, narrow, entire. Flowers 
rather crowded at the ends of the branches, shortly pedi- 
celled, about half an inch in diameter. Calyz-lobes linear- 
oblong, obtuse, tips spreading or recurved. Petals hardly 
twice as long as the sepals, cuneate-obovate, white. Sta- 
mens included ; ovary sunk in the calyx-tube; styles two, 
erect, elongate, subulate; stigmas capitellate.——J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, anther; 3, ovary and styles :—all enlarged. 
