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HOAREA labyrinthica. 
Lahyrinth-Jlowered Hoarea. 
H. labyrinthica., foliis piloso-canescentibus : inferioribus 
simplicibus ovatis ternatisque ; superioribus pinnatifidis 
pinnatisque : foliolis segmentisque oblongo-ovatis op- 
positis alternisque utrinque pilosis canescentibus, sca- 
po ramoso, umbellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero calyce 
reflexo sesquilongiore. 
Hoarea labyrinthica. Swt. hort. brit. p. — . n.6\. 
Root tuberous. Stemless. Leaves variable, hairy and 
canescent ; lower ones simple and ovate, trifid or ternate ; 
upper ones pinnatifid or pinnate : leaflets opposite and 
alternate, oblong or ovate, bluntish, hairy and canescent. 
Petioles slender, villosely hairy. Stipules lanceolate, 
acute, joined at the base of, and decurrent a good way up 
the petiole. Scapes branching, and producing several 
umbels of flowers, thickly clothed with soft unequal hairs, 
as are the peduncles, calyx, and nectariferous tube. Pe- 
duncles cylindrical. Involucre of several linear, acute, 
fringed bractes. Umbels many-flowered. Pedicles very 
short, or altogether wanting. Calyx 5-cleft, segments 
lanceolate, acute, upper one erect, concave, the others 
narrower and reflexed. Nectariferous tube about half 
as long again as the calyx. Petals 5, the S upper ones 
spatulately ligulate, reflexed from about the middle, much 
veined, the veins crossing each other, marked with a dark 
purple spot near the bend, which extends into some of the 
veins : lower ones narrower, of a lighter colour, and 
scarcely veined. Filaments 10, united at the base, 5 bear- 
