long, and broad, oblong-ovate, or triangular-ovate in outline, 
pinnatifid with one or two pairs of spreading lobed or 
irregularly pinnatifid segments, which are obtuse or rounded 
at the apex; stipules subulate, slender. Peduncles longer 
than the leaves, very slender. ower one to one and a half 
inches in diameter, light mauve, pale towards the centre, with 
bright red anthers and bases of the petals. Sepals triangular- 
ovate, acute, purple at the base, green, not glandular dotted 
as they are in a closely-allied species. Petals very much 
larger than the sepals, obliquely truncate. Anthers very 
numerous, superimposed in five longitudinal series. Carpels 
tumid and mammillate. Styles very numerous (twenty-five 
to thirty), spreading, truncate-—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower with corolla removed. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section 
of ditto :—all magnified. 
