sub-cordate. Peduncle four to ten inches long, simple or 
branched, suberect, terete. Umbel six to ten flowered ; involu- 
cral bracts linear-oblong, one-third of an inch long, obtuse ; 
pedicels the same length or a little longer. FYowers one and 
a quarter to one and a half inches diameter. Ca/ya-tube one 
inch long, cylindric, slender, gibbous at the base ; lobes like 
the involucral bracts,obtuse. Peta/s subequal, the larger three- 
quarters of an inch long, smaller two-thirds, oblong-spathulate, 
crimson with black elongate broken blotches running into 
the nerves on the disc.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower with the petals removed :—magnisied. 
