with coarse cellular hairs on the leaves and scape below, 
and with finer ones on the panicle above. oots without 
stolons. Stems none. Leaves on stout petioles, orbicular 
with a cordate base or subreniform, two to three inches in 
diameter, shallowly five- to many-lobed, the lobes rounded 
and obtuse or triangular and acute, crenate or toothed ; 
nerves radiating from the petiole, bright green above, 
fading to bright red-brown or red; petiole two to three 
inches long, sheath half to three-quarters of an inch, ciliate 
with long hairs. Scape long or short, stout, bearing a 
large open panicle often seven to eight inches long and five 
to six broad; branches erecto-patent; bracts ovate, ciliate. 
Flowers on slender pedicels, one-third to one-half of an inch 
across the smaller petals. Sepals nearly free, oblong, 
obtuse, green, about half the length of the smaller petals. 
Petals linear, subacute, white, unspotted, the one to 
three longer ones one-half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Filaments slender ; anthers bright red-brown. Ovary free; 
carpels united to above the middle, ending in straight 
suberect styles with small capitate stigmas.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Anthers ; 3, ovary :—all enlarged. 
