Descr. Root tuberous. Stemnone. Leaves upon long, 
succulent, downy petioles, a foot and ahalf or more in length, 
cordate, from six inches to a span long, deeply lobed and 
serrated at the margin, slightly downy, most so upon the 
prominent veins beneath, of a bright green colour. Scape 
about as long as the petioles, rounded, downy, bearing the 
large, greenish-white flowers in corymbs ; in the dried spe- 
cimens each peduncle has two or three such corymbs, and 
in each corymb of from four to six flowers, the upper flowers 
are male, the lower female : pedicels with caducous bracteas. 
Male flowers two inches in diameter, of eight or nine obo- 
vate, spreading, unequal petals, of which the outer ones are 
greener than the inner. Stamens exceedingly numerous, of 
which several in the centre are abortive, club-headed ones. 
—Female flowers smaller than the male. Petals fewer, 
generally six. Germen downy, turbinate, triquetrous, three- 
lobed, two of the angles with small, indistinct wings, the 
third with a very large, oblong, porrected one, slightly 
toothed and reddish at the extremity. Styles several, 
branched. Stigmas lobed, penicillate. 
Fig. 1. Pistil, slightly magnified. 2. Stamen. 3. Abortive ditto: mag- 
nified. 
