The specimen here figured was sent from the Belfast Bo- 
tanic Garden in 1838, by Mr. Frereuson, late the head gar- 
dener at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, but now, fortunately 
for the Belfast Institution, the very excellent Curator of 
its beautiful garden. 
Descr. Root an almost obconical, or somewhat pear- 
shaped tuber. Stem long, twining, branched, terete, suc- 
culent, glabrous, as is all the rest of the plant. Leaves on 
very long, cirrhiform petioles, without stipules, dark-green 
above, pale and glaucous beneath, peltate, rotundato-cor- 
date, five-lobed, transversely truncate at the base, the lobes 
broad, roundish-cuneate truncate, and frequently furnished 
with a mucro or minute point at the apex. Calyx orange- 
red, deeply five-lobed, almost five-partite, the lobes oval, the 
upper one prolonged into an attenuated straight spur, geni- 
culated at the point. Petals five, a little longer than the 
calyx, obovate, two of them a little shorter and less ungui- 
culated, all of a full orange-colour, with black veins. Sta- 
mens eight, unequal; filaments red: anthers roundish: 
pollen yellow. Germen, in our specimen, of four rounded 
lobes. Style thick, white, yellow above. Stigma irregu- 
larly jagged. 
Fig. 1, Flower. 2, Pistil:—magnified. 
