most often of three leaflets, three to nine inches long; 
petioles furnished with small prickles and glandular 
bristles. Leaflets lanceolate, one to three inches long, 
glabrous, serrulate., Stipules entire, minutely glandular, 
adnate to the petiole almost to the top, free part linear. 
Peduncles often elongated, naked, one- or rarely three- 
flowered. Flowers white or more or less tinged with 
yellow, almost golden in bud, four to six inches across. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about an inch long, 
pubescent and white on the inner surface, minutely 
glandular along the margin. Petals orbicular-oboyate, 
largest two inches and a half across, abruptly acuminate. 
Carpels hairy. Fruit globose, about an inch and a half in 
diameter, quite smooth.—W. B. H, 
Fig. 1, free part of stipule; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, fruit ; 6, a ripe 
carpel :—all except 5 enlarged, Z 
