and was, I believe, introduced into Europe by Messrs. 
Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt. The specimen here 
figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in April last. 
Dezscr. A weak, green, perennial-rooted, straggling, or sub- 
erect herb, four to eight inches high or long, more or less 
covered with scattered curled short hairs, Stems many from the 
root, branched. Leaves subradical, petioled, one to one and a 
half inches in diameter, orbicular-reniform, crenate-lobed, 
bright green, paler beneath; petiole a half to one inch long. 
Cymes at the ends of the branches, few-flowered, ebracteate. 
Flowers variable in size, one-third to one-half inch in diameter, 
white; pedicels slender, spreading. Sepals oblong-ovate, sub- 
acute. Corolla-lobes orbicular. Stamens attached to the base 
of the corolla-tube. Disk annular. Ovary glabrous, style 
slender, stigma minute.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, disk and ovary; 4, transverse 
section of ovary :—all magnified. 
