curious, is less handsome than the beautiful P. speciosus 
figured at Tab. 4117 of this work. 
Desc. Caudex stout, tuberous, a foot long in our specimen ; 
the upper part conical, two and a half inches diameter at the 
widest part, and three quarters of an inch at the top, covered 
with pale bark. Branches annual, six to eight inches long, 
spreading, stout, rather flexuous, covered like the leaves with 
a powdery pubescence. Leaves two to three inches long, 
spreading, linear-oblong, subacute, pinnatifid to beyond the 
middle; lobes spreading, a quarter of an inch long, triangular- 
ovate, obtuse, quite entire, dark green above, pale below ; 
petioles short, with a small sessile depressed gland on each 
side. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels very short, 2- 
glandular at the base. Calya-lobes triangular-lanceolate, un- 
equal. Corolla one and a half inches long; tube one-third 
of an inch diameter, slightly curved, vertically compressed, 
gibbous below towards the base, pale green ; throat trans- 
versely reniform, contracted ; lobes a quarter of an inch long, 
one-third of an inch broad, retuse, spreading, pale dirty 
orange-yellow or brown.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, pédicel and glands, with ovary, style and stigma; 2, base of 
corolla and stamen; 3, ovary and disc :—-all magnified. 
