six to ten inches long, lyrate-pinnatisect, petiole and 

 rhachis stout, terminal segment orbicular, attaining three 

 inches in diameter, obscurely crenate, lateral segments few, 

 much smaller, alternate, distant, sessile, orbicular, lowest 

 very small ; upper leaves trifoliolate, all petiolulate, seg- 

 ments entire, or more or less unequally crenately lobulate, 

 terminal largest. Flowers many, in erect, short racemes 

 terminating the stem and branches, three-quarters of an 

 inch in diameter, pedicels one half to one inch long, sub- 

 erect. Sepals oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Petals with a 

 short, broad, toothed claw, and an orbicular, rosy lilac, 

 rarely white, orbicular limb one-third of an inch in 

 diameter. Pod half an inch long, one-fifth of an inch 

 broad, many-seeded; style short, stigma obtuse. Seeds 

 pale brown — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Claw of petal; 2, hypogynous glands, stamens and ovary; 3, ovary 

 ana glands ; 4 pods ; 5, seed ; 6, embryo ; 7, transverse section of seed -.—All 



enlarged, except 4, which is of nat. size. 



