1917-18.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 239 



shallowly 7-9 lobed, lobes triangular acute more or less 

 dentate, lobes and teeth ending in a prominent hydatbode 

 often 1 mm. long, margin ciliate with glandular hairs, base 

 cordate with an open or closed sinus, upper surface bright 

 green, lower paler both glandular-hairy ; petiole about 

 9 cm. long green glandular hairy. Scape about 5-7 dm. 

 long (Maclaren) far exceeding the leaves, green glandular- 

 pubescent as are the bracts and pedicels and outside of 

 calyx, bearing 2-3 whorls and a terminal umbel of 6-8 

 flowers each; bracts linear-subulate about 4 mm. long, 

 green ; pedicels short about 6 mm. long drooping, green ; 

 anthopode narrow. Calyx campanulate green about 8 mm. 

 long glabrous inside, cut to near the base into 5 lanceolate 

 patent divaricate one-nerved lobes, nerve inconspicuous and 

 ending in a large pale yellow green hydathode, sinuses 

 membranous. Corolla crimson-lake (in bud deep plum- 

 purple) with yellow-green or yellow-tinted eye ; tube 

 tinted red outside, cylindric below the stamens, ampliate 

 above them, glandular-puberulous outside, more or less 

 transversely rugose, in long-styled flower about 1 cm. long 

 in short-styled about 1*2 cm., annulate, annulus of ten 

 lobes antipetalous in pairs; limb flat, disk about 2 mm. 

 broad shortly gland-puberulous olive-green or tinted yellow 

 and bounded by a narrow deep-magenta ring ; lobes 5 

 obcordate or cuneate about 8 mm. long and broad, deeply 

 bifid, segments divaricate often lobed and with an apiculus 

 in the sinus. Stamens in long-styled flower inserted about 

 4 mm. from base of corolla-tube, in short-styled near the 

 top the anthers reaching the annulus ; filaments stout 

 conspicuous nearly as long as the anther; anther ovate 

 apiculate yellow with cream-white connective about 

 1*25 mm. long. Ovary smooth turbinate ; long style 

 slightly exserted, short style shorter than calyx ; stigma 

 discoid green. 



Central Korea. Province of Whanghaido. Flowering 

 June 1915. Growing in rank grass at bottom of a narrow 

 valley at 4000 ft. Uncommon. Only seen in one group. 

 Mr. Malcolm Maclaren — after whom the plant is named. 



A tall-growing species of the Geranioid section, difl'ering 

 from all other described members of the section by its 

 tiered candelabra inflorescence reachino- over 7 decimeters 



