of England. It is probably, like that plant, a biennial. It 
was raised from Peruvian seeds by Messrs. Veitch, and 
flowered in their grounds in July of the present year. 
Descr. A climber, several feet high, hispid with spreading 
and recurved stinging bristles and shorter spreading hairs. 
Leaves shortly petioled, four to six inches long, triangular- 
oblong or -ovate, pinnatifid to the middle or to near the base, 
hispid, dark green; lobes few or many, broad or narrow, 
pinnatifidly lobed or toothed; pale blue-green beneath. 
Peduncles axillary, as long as or longer than the leaves, stout, 
hispid. /owers one and a half to two inches in diameter. 
Calyx-tube short, obscure; lobes one-third to half an inch 
long, linear-oblong, pinnatifidly toothed or lobed. Petals 
bright brick-red, three-quarters of an inch long, spreading, 
obtuse, with a few bristles on the back. Scales a quarter of 
an inch long, cup-shaped, green, 3-toothed at the rounded 
tip, pubescent. Staminodes falcate, with one tooth on the 
margin, beyond which they are much narrowed and subulate. © 
Staminal-bundles slender. Capsule (from Jussieu’s figure) © 
narrowly ellipsoid, an inch and a half long. —/. D. LH. 
Fig. 1, Scale and staminodes ;—magnified, 
