green above, paler below, all radical, subpeltate, cordato-pal- 

 mate, hairy above and below, with seven strong radiating 

 nerves, veryprominent below, lobes lanceolate, oblong, undu- 

 late, sinuated, dentate, unequal, the central (four inches from 

 the insertion of the petiole to its apex) being the longest, the 

 others gradually smaller to the sinus ; petiole rather shorter 

 than the middle lobe, densely covered with long coarse 

 entangled crystalline hairs, which, in fading, resemble 

 yellow wool. Scape (two feet high) tapering upwards, 

 straight, pretty closely covered with oblong red streaks, 

 from which spring long, tortuous, acute, crystalline hairs. 

 Bractece in opposite pairs at each division of the flower- 

 stalk, serrated, ovate, hairy, dentato-ciliate, nerved, smaller 

 in every succeeding pair. Peduncles dichotomo-deliquescent, 

 streaked like the scape, and somewhat hispid. Flowers 

 rose-coloured, dipetalous, petals rotund, entire ; male flowers 

 in the cleft of the peduncles, expanding before the female. 

 Stamens yellow, ascending ; filaments cohering only at the 

 base ; anthers spathulate ; connective extending beyond the 

 loculaments." 



The fruit, with which neither Messrs. Schlechtendahl and 

 Chamisso nor Dr. Graham were acquainted, has three rounded 

 wings, of which two are small and green, the third much 

 longer, pink, and a little directed upwards. 



