THE BOTANICAL MAGAQl$E. [Vo i. xxt. no. sms. 



deltoid-ovate or lanceolato-ovate, elongato-attcnuated above with 

 an obtuse or acutish tip, auriculato-cordate with an open or sub- 

 close deep sinus and oval-orbienlate lobes, depressed-crenate often 

 with concave-margined teeth, thinly piloso-pubescent and some- 

 times pale-variegated along the nerves above, glabrous and pur- 

 purascent beneath, 2J— 5cm. long, 1J— 3 cm. broad in flower, but 

 attaining about Gem. long, 4cm. broad in fruit; petiole usually 

 longer than the blade, slender, apterous, thinly pilose above with 

 patent hairs, about 3— 8cm. long; stipules membranaceous, adnate 

 below, the upper free portions about 5— 10 mm. long, subulate or 

 linear-subulate, acuminate. Peduncls 1 to several, shorter than 

 leaves, about 4-7 cm. long, glabrous, but thinly pilose above in 

 eleistogamous-flowercd ones, bibracteolate in or below the middle ; 

 bracteoles adpressed, linear-subulate, acuminate, glauduloso- 

 serrate on the basal margins, 6— 7mm. long. Flowers about 

 l|cm. across, pale rose, more or less fragrant. Sepals lanceo- 

 late or ovato-lanceolate, acuminate with an acute tip, glabrous, 

 membranaceous, 3— nerved, purplish, 6— 10mm. long; basal auricles 

 oval or elliptico-rectangular, entire, bifid, or irregularly crenato- 

 dentate, thinly ciliated or glabrous, about 2 mm. long in those 

 of the lower sepals, but smaller and subulato-deltoid in those of 

 the lateral sepals. Petals oblong, rounded or somewhat bifid at 

 the apex ; the upper and lateral ones cuneately attenuated at 

 the base; the upper ones slightly shorter than the lateral ones, 

 about 13-14 mm. long, 6! mm. wide; the lateral ones beardless, 

 hardly narrower than the upper ones, 14-16 mm. long, 5 £—6 mm. 

 wide ; the lower one about equal to the lateral ones in length, 

 about 6J mm. long; calcar slightly shorter than sepals, oblong or 

 narrowly oblong, rounded at the end, straight, compressed 

 laterally, 5-6 \ mm. long. Stamens about 3 J— 4mm. long; con- 

 nective-tip elliptical-ovate, acutish or obtuse, equal to the 

 anther-cells in length; appendages falcately linear, gradually 

 attenuated above with an obtuse tip, slightly curved upwards, 

 about 5— 6mm. long. Style exserted, equalling the ovary in 

 length, enlarged above; stigma obovato-deltoid, convex, produced, 

 marginate. Ovary conico-ovoid, glabrous, about 3mm. long. 

 CapSule oblong, acute, glabrous, about 10mm. long. 



