‘« N. mexicana true.” This last statement is an error, for 
N. mexicana belongs to a section of the genus with 
muticous anthers, and has, according to a description in 
the “ Wiener Illustr. Gartenzeit.,” 1889, p. 413, yellow 
flowers. 
Descr.—Leaves orbicular, six to ten inches broad, — 
coarsely sinuate-crenate, bifid at the base nearly to th 
centre; segments with pointed tips, sides parallel or divari. 
cate, bright green above, paler beneath. Flowers fi 
inches broad. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, external! 
yellowish green, white within. Petals narrowly lanceolate, 
tips sub-acute. Stamens nearly an inch long; filaments of © 
the outer oblong; anthers longer than the filaments, narrow, 
terminated by an acute elongation of the connectiv: 
golden-yellow. Stigmas twelve to fourteen, conical, obtuse. 
oJ, D. H. = : 2s 
Fig. 1 and 2, stamans; 3, enla 
