these are used medicinally by the inhabitants. For the 
material for our figure, taken from Mr. Purdom’s plant, 
we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch. 
Derscription.—fHerb, perennial; stem stout, striate, 
glabrous, the lower internodes up to 7 in. long. Leaves: 
radical obsolete ; lower cauline reniform, upper orbicular- 
reniform in outline, up to 5 in. long and 7 in. across, 
palmately 5-partite, the segments wide-oblanceolate, acute 
with cuneate base, up to 3 in. long, 2 in. across, lobed 
and except in the lower portion sharply serrate, main 
and secondary nerves visible and raised beneath, thinly 
papery, glabrous, rather paler beneath; petiole broad 
and short, about } in. long. Peduncles striate like the 
stem, glabrous, up to a foot in height, with two alternate, 
tripartite, leafy bracteoles above the middle. Sepals 
12-13, the outer wide-ovate, up to ?in. long and 3 in. 
wide, the inner rather longer and usually rather narrower 
than the outer, all rounded at the tip, and more or less 
distinctly veined. Petals 20, linear, narrowed to both 
extremities, more or less acute, over 1 in. long, about 
iin. wide. Stamens glabrous; filaments up to 3 in. long; 
anthers apiculate, + in. long. Carpels glabrous; style 
half as long as the ovary or shorter; ovules about 10, 
2-seriate. 
Fig. 1, a nectary; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, carpels; 5, a carpel, in vertical section, 
showing ovules :—all enlarged. 
