PLANT DESCRIPTION. 127 



Description of Fig. 243. 





 ROOTS fibrous. 



STEM a scaly bulb. 



LEAVES radical, petiolate, exstipulate, digitately 

 three-fingered ; leaflets sessile, feather-veined, entire, 

 ' obcordate ; petiole long, slender. 



INFLORESCENCE a loose terminal umbel. 



FLOWER. CALYX ; sepals 5, polysepalous : COROL- 

 LA ; petals 5, regular, polypetalous, obovate, mucn 

 larger than the sepals : STAMENS 10, of unequal length, 

 hairy ; filaments awl-shaped, flattened below, grown 

 together ; anthers short, oval, two-celled : PISTIL : 

 ovary ovoid, of 5 united carpels ; styles free, hairy ; 

 stigmas enlarged, rounded* 



