base, sheathed. Leaves shorter than the stem, lengthening 
somewhat after the flowers have faded, glaucous, biternate; 
leaflets subtrifid, lobes oboyato-oblong. Raceme terminal; 
rachis tapering ; flowers scattered loosely ; pedicels (half an 
inch long) gradually lengthening as the fruit forms, sub- 
erect, round, glabrous, reddish. Bracteas single at the 
base of each pedicel, rather shorter than the pedicels when 
in flower, ovato-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually diminishing 
upwards, nerved. Flower (an inch and three quarters long) 
rose-coloured, petals slightly cohering at the base, 
imb concave, that of the three upper petals fleshy, the 
upper and lower nearly equal, upper suberect, lower almost 
straight, wings shorter, their limb oblong, keeled, blood-red 
in the upper half, cohering at the apex, keel, when placed 
under the microscope found to be tubercled near the apex, 
claw long, slender, linear : spur tapering, nearly straight. 
Filaments diadelphous, three cohering. within the upper 
and three within the lower petal, free for a very little way 
at the apex only. Anthers yellow, pollen-granules spheri- 
cal. Stigma green, compressed, blunt, sagittate at the 
base, crowning the anthers. Germen oblong-linear, an- 
gled, ovules numerous. | 
-Tubers of this plant, which is a native of the Altaic — 
Mountains, were received at the Botanic Garden, Edin- — 
burgh, from Berlin, in. 1832, and flowered in the green- 
house, during the Decémber and January following. 
Graham. ae a 
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Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower, from which the Petals, 4 and 5, are 
removed. 2. Pistil 3. Three of the Stamens cohering by their Filaments: ~ 
Slightly magnified, 
