hispidulous, except the corolU, with steUate hairs. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, elliptic, ovate, or sub-rhomboid, entire or 

 three-lobed, crenate or toothed, palmately three- to five- 

 nerved ; base cuneate, rounded or cordate, dark green 

 above; stipules small, subulate. Flowers one to three, 

 on axillary, stout, erect peduncles, shortly pedicelled, 

 three and a half inches in diameter. Bracts of the in- 

 volucel ten to twelve, about half an inch long, lanceolate. 

 Calyx as long as the bracts, cup-shaped, variouslj^ 

 cleft. Corolla bright golden-yellow, with carmine at the 

 base of the tube within, lobes orbicular. Stamina! tube 

 covered throughout witl: pale yellow anthers. Stigma 

 three-lobed, lobes globose., blood-red. Capsule about half 

 an inch long, globose or ovoid, glabrous ; valves smooth. 

 Seech reniform, hairy. — ./. D. TI. 



Fig. 1, pedicel with involucel, calyx and ovary; 2, stellate huirs ; 

 3, anthers -.—all enlarged. 



