specimen figured, which flowered in the Royal Gardens of 
Kew in June last, was received in August, 1889, from the 
Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 
Duscr. A very slender herb, two to three feet high. 
Radical leaves long-petioled, ternately decompound, trian- 
gular in outline, ten to twelve inches broad ; petiole, petio- 
lules and their branches very slender, wiry, dark purple, 
quite smooth ; stipules and stipellules small, green ; leaflets 
three to five on the ultimate branches, distant, one-third 
of an inch broad, obtusely three- to five-lobulate, base 
cuneate rounded or cordate, pale beneath. lowers pen- 
dulous, pale purple-blue, in very lax panicles, with linear 
bracts at the axils; pedicels long, slender, decurved. 
Sepals half an inch long, elliptic-ovate, obtuse, ribbed. 
Stamens very many, as long as the sepals ; filaments filiform, 
glabrous. Carpels ten to twelve, subpuberulous, dimi- 
_ diate-obovate, narrowed to the base and apex, with three 
parallel ribs; stigma linear-oblong, decurrent on the 
narrowed apex of the achene.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, head of carptls; 3, single carpels :—all enlarged. 
