i48 PENTANDEIA, MONOGYNIA. 
petals oblong, the lateral and lowest one bearded.—Leaves 
*sther thick, mostly incumbent on the ground, often pur- 
us 1 smooth beneath; scape 
always longer than the flowering leaves, segments of the 
scarcely produced at 
the base; petals short, obovate,—the 2 lateral and the 
tower thinly bearded, multistriate—Leaves thickish, al- 
most of an equal length and breadth, elegantly cordate 
and subacute, mostly incumbent on the ground, about an 
Jnetelong, and equally broad; stipules minute, subulate; 
‘gments of the calix short and narrow, somewhat oblong; 
ooth, stigma small, ros- 
d all round. About 3 
four inches high; growing in dry woods on the banks 
of the Sch r F philatelphis- Flowering in May. 
My friend has long known this plant and con- 
idered it 65 Gdlnet species; it appears, however, 
allied to 7. villosa of Walter, aid is decidedly the Vi 
sororia figured in the Hortus Berolinensis, although the 
feaf is said to be pubescent beneath instead of above. 
