in outline, two to five inches in diameter, obtuse, base 
cordate, margins dbtusely lobulate, strongly waved and 
incurved when young, pale green, pilose above, glandular 
beneath, penninerved, nerves few impressed ; petiole one — 
to three inches long, stout, broadly winged, wing waved. 
Scapes equalling or shorter than the leaves, many-flowered, 
glandnlar-hairy ; flowers in umbelliform incurved cymes, _ 
subsecund when young, shortly pedicelled; involucral bracts 
two, half an inch long, linear-oblong, obtuse, Spreading. 
Calyx one-third of an inch long, narrow, tubulose, terete, 
glandular-hirsute, with brown hairs, subequally five-partite, 
segments lanceolate, erect. Disk of two free cuneately 
quadrate fleshy segments. Corolla salver-shaped, glandular- 
pubescent or tomentose without and within; tube longer 
than the calyx ; limb one-half to three-fourths of an inch 
broad, unequally five-lobed; lobes spreading, obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, obscurely crenate, ciliate, white with very broad violet- 
purple borders, and abroad purple median band. Stasnens 
two, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, filaments very 
short ; anthers approximate but free, cells divaricate and - 
superposed. Ovary free, pubescent, oblong, two-celled ; 
style short, stigma bilamellate; ovules very many, on two 
parietal placentas. Capsule oblong, included, loculicidally . 
two-valved, the valves thin, bifid. Seeds very numerous 
and minute, oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Section of calyx; 2, ditto of corolla; 3, stamens; 4, transverse 
section of ovary :—ali enlarged 
