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Description of Fig. 242. 



ROOTS fibrous. 



LEAVES radical, petiolate, exstipulate, palmate- 

 veined, acutely three-lobed; base cordate, surface 

 hairy. Bracts hairy, in a whorl of three near 

 the flower. 



INFLORESCENCE solitary, on a slender hairy scape.* 



FLOWER. CALYX; sepals 8-12, oblong spread- 

 ing : COROLLA none : STAMENS many ; filaments 

 threadlike ; anthers oval, two-celled : PISTIL ; car- 

 pels many ; style very short ; stigma continued down 

 the inner face of the style. 



* Scape, a peduncle which arises from an underground stem. 



