equal to 3,600 feet above the level of the sea. It flowers in 
the open border in July : but I regret that I have not been 
able to give a figure of the fruit, which affords one of the 
most striking characters of the species, and from whence 
the specific name is derived. 
Descr. Stems weak, prostrate, herbaceous, rounded, 
_clothed with spreading hairs, not much branched. Leaves 
on long, slender, hairy, wavy petioles, especially the radical 
ones, reniform, or more usually approaching to orbicular, 
deeply seven-lobed, strongly veined, the lobes cuneate, 
trifid, the segments two or three-toothed. Peduncles long, 
slender, two-flowered, hairy, bracteated at the forking of the 
peduncle. Flowers rather large, handsome, of a bright red 
purple colour, marked with redder veins. Calyx-veins oval, 
spreading, clothed with spreading hairs, mucronate. Petals 
broadly obovate, emarginate, hairy near the base. Stamens 
ten, as in the Genus; five inner ones longer, more erect, and 
having the anthers dehiscent sooner than the outer ones, 
purple-red ; pollen almost blue. Style and stigmas shorter 
‘the inner stamens. 
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2. Petal —magnified. 
