flowered peduncle or in a very lax raceme ; bark quite 
white, of the branchlets, peduncles and pedicels pubescent, 
or tomentose. Leaves fascicled on the branches, one-third 
to two-thirds of an inch long, cuneate, narrowed into a 
short petiole, flabellately or pimnately cut into five to mine 
narrow linear obtuse lobes, bright green above, white and 
tomentose beneath, margins recurved. lowers one to 
one and a half inch in diameter; pedicels as long, very 
slender, bracteate at the base, and with often one or more 
bracteoles along their length ; bracts and bracteoles small, 
oblong-lanceolate, appressed. Calyx one-fourth of an inch 
in diameter; tube turbinate, villous within; lobes ovate 
acute or two- to three-toothed at the tip, densely tomentose, 
with a subuiate bracteole at the sinus between each. Petals 
pure white, orbicular, fugacious. Stamens in a triple 
series at the mouth of the calyx, filaments capillary, half 
as long as the petals; anthers minute. Carpels numerous, 
on a minute conical receptacle at the bottom of the calyx- 
tube; style very slender; stigma minute; ovule basal, 
erect. Stipe carpels lanceolate, silky, ending in capillary 
feathery styles one to one and a half inch long.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower cut vertically ; 2, calyx seen from the back ; 3,stamens; 4, carpel ; 
5, ripe ditto ; 6, vertical section of immature achene :—ail enlarged. 
