three-lobed or three-partite; petiole one to two inches 
long, petiolules about half as long. Flower solitary, very 
large, cernuous, golden-yellow ; peduncle six inches “long, 
erect, arched at the tip. Sepals nearly two inches long, 
ovate-lanceolate, sub-caudately acuminate, tips recurved, 
dorsally strongly three-ribbed, glabrous within, margins 
broadly tomentose. Filaments dilated, and sparsely villous 
below the middle, anthers linear. Ovary minute, villous, 
style plumose.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, stamen; 2, carpel :—both enlarged. 
