opens first and then the lower of the axillary ones. The 
abrupt curve at the junction of the claw and blade imparts 
a cordate appearance to the base of the sepals. The plant 
from which the material for our figure was obtained 
flowered in the garden of Canon Ellacombe at Bitton, near 
Bristol, in May, 1909. The species thrives in a mixture of 
loam and peat. | 
DescripTion.—IHerb ; rootstock ascending, woody, simple 
or sparingly branched, clothed upwards with persistent 
leaf bases. Stem solitary, erect, 6-10 in. high, sparingly 
hairy, generally 3-flowered. Leaves at the base several, 
long-petioled, the lower portion of the petioles sheathing, 
ternately decompound; leaflets orbicular-flabellate, 3-sect, 
3-2 in. wide, glaucescent beneath; segments 3-lobed, the 
lobes somewhat rhomboid and again divided into rounded 
lobes ; stem-leaves 2~3, the petioles sheathing throughout); 
segments lobed almost to the middle. Flowers nodding, 
white, the terminal opening first, its peduncle bractless and 
about 2 in, long; the lateral on peduncles bracteate at their 
tips, with pedicels 3-3 in. long. Sepals shortly clawed, the 
claw descending, about 1 lin. long, the blade abruptly 
upcurved at the base, ovate-elliptic, slightly emarginate, 
2 in. long, 3 in. wide. Petals erect, spurred, blade oblong, 
often slightly emarginate, § in. long, about } in. wide, spur 
about 5 lin. long, strongly curved at the tip. Stamens 
about 40, radiately 10-seriate on the convex receptacle, 
gradually decreasing in size outwards ; filaments subulate ; 
anthers elliptic-oblong. Staminodes united in a 10-toothed 
tube. Carpels 5-7, quite erect, closely adpressed, ciliate 
along the ventral angle. 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, staminodes and pistil ; 4, pistil :—al? enlarged. 
