comparison of our figure with Lindley's. The sharply, 

 coarsely, prickly-toothed leaflets and yellowish greeu flowers 

 characterize typical H. corsicus. Schiffner, the most 

 recent (1890) monographer of the genus, says of H. Hin- 

 dus, Ait., that it was only known to him, in a wild state, 

 from Majorca, Balearic Islands, but that it might possibly 

 occur in Corsica and Sardinia, though he believed the 

 records for those islands referred to typical H. corsicus. 

 The specimen figured is from a plant brought by Miss 

 Fanny Geoghegan to Dublin from Majorca in 1900. It 

 flowered in February, 1902, and again this year, in the 

 Botanic Garden of Trinity College, and I am indebted to 

 Mr. F. W. Burbidge, the Curator, for excellent specimens 

 sent both seasons. 



Bescr.— Under cultivation this is a robust plant, with 

 thick, fleshy stems, more or less deeply tinged and 

 mottled with red, as is also the under surface of the 

 leaves. Radical leaves simple, cordate ; cauline trifoliolate ; 

 leaflets thick, coriaceous, pale green above, ovate-oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, about six inches long, entire or 

 sometimes obscurely toothed, lateral sessile and semi- 

 cordate at the base, terminal shortly petiolulate and 

 cuneate at the base. Flowers about two and a half inches 

 across, dull purple-grey, tinged with green, nodding, in 

 panicles of about six to eight, overtopping the leaves. 

 bepals orbicular, concave, paler within. Petals tubular 

 with an oblique mouth, green. Anthers vellow. Carpels 



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Figs. 1 ami 2, petals ; 3, an anther ; 4, gymeceura .— all enlarged. 



