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SEYMOURIA asarifolia. 
j^sarum-leaved Seymouria. 
Seymouria. Pet. 2 basi distincta, medio abrupte re- 
flexa. Stam. 5 subaequalia, longe tiibulosa recta, 
omnia antherifera : sterilia nulla. Herbae acaules ? 
radice tuheroso-rapiformi; foUis indivisis, 
S. asarifolia, foliis rotundato-cordatis obtusiusculis in- 
tegerrimis ciliatis : super glabris nitentibus : subtus 
tomentoso-velutinis, umbella composita capitato- 
depressa, petalis lanceolato-spatulatis emarginatis. 
Root tuberous, large. Stem none, or very short. 
Leaves roundly cordate, bluntish, entire, ciliate ; of a 
bright shining green on the upper side, and densely 
tomentose underneath. Petioles rather broadest at the 
base and point, flattened on the upper side and convex 
on the lower, hairy. Stipules small, taper-pointed, 
joined to the base of the petioles. Scape leafless, 
branching, thickly clothed with soft villous hairs, as 
are the peduncles, bractes, and calyx. Bracte inclos- 
ing the peduncles at the base, divided into several un- 
equal ovate and lanceolate, concave, acute segments. 
Peduncles slender, cylindrical. Umbels in a small de^ 
pressed head, many-flowered. Involucre of six or seven 
narrow taper-pointed bractes ; some lanceolate, others 
subulate. Calyx 5-cleft, segments linear, acute, all 
reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the length of the 
calyx, slightly nodding, hairy. Petals only 2, lanceo- 
lately-spatulate, notched at the point, reflexed from 
about the middle, of a brilliant dark purple, varie- 
gated and spotted with a blackish velvet: no rudi- 
ments of lower petals. Filaments 5, purple, straight, 
nearly equal, connected into a long tube, all beavinff 
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