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makes a section of it (Peltophyllum) founded on the shape of 
the leaf, and on the carpels opening above only, but the 
latter is an error, for the carpels open to the base both in 
this plant and in that figured by Torrey. 
I am indebted to Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing for a 
specimen of this fine plant, which flowered with them in April 
1873; it would probably attain a greater size if planted in or 
near water and become a very conspicuous and attractive 
object. 
Drscr. Sootstock as thick as the thumb, creeping, partly 
buried in the soil; green with large broad leaf-scars ; the 
tip clothed with the broad green stipular leaf-sheaths, which 
are rounded with membranous pink-margins. Leaves all 
subterminal, erect ; petiole one to two feet long, cylindric, as 
thick as a goose-quill, glandular-pubescent ; blade orbicular, 
peltate, six inches in diameter, 6-10-lobed, the lobes cut 
and sharply-toothed, upper surface dark green with a deep 
funnel-shaped depression at the centre where attached 
to the petiole, pale beneath. Scape equalling or exceeding 
the leaves, terete and glandular like the petiole. Cyme 
three to five inches in diameter ; subcapitate, repeatedly 
branched, ebracteolate, glandular-pubescent. Flowers one half 
inch in diameter, Calyzx-tube very short, between obconic 
and campanulate; lobes 5, reflexed, oblong, tip rounded. 
Petals longer than the sepals, elliptic, rounded at both 
ends, white or very pale pink. Stamens equalling or exceed- 
ing the petals, filaments broad subulate, anthers small broad. 
Carpels two, nearly free, narrowed into short stout styles; 
stigma dilated, Fruit-carpels one-third inch long, narrowed 
into the style. Seeds large, subcuneate, angled, compressed, 
brown. —J. D. 7 
Fig. 1, Flower, with petals removed :—~-magnified. 
