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HOAREA selinifolia. 
Milk-parsley leaved Hoarea. 
H. selinifolia, acaulis, uinbella composita, foliis pinna- 
tis pilosis ; foliolis pinnatifidis incisisve ; segmentis 
oblongo-lanceolatis subdentatis obtusiusculis, ca- 
lycibus reflexis, petalis superioribus refractis' infe- 
I'ioribus patentibus. 
Root tuberous, branching out into numerous other 
smaller tubers. Stem none. Leaves pinnate, very 
hairy, of a light green colour : leaflets pinnatifid or 
deeply incised : segments oblong or lanceolate, entire 
or sometimes toothed, bluntish. Petioles slightly flat- 
tened on the upper side and rounded on the lower 
widened at the base, thickly clothed with white un- 
equal hairs, as are the peduncles and calyx. Stipules 
subulately linear, joined to the base of the petioles. 
Scape branching. Peduncles long and slender, cylin- 
drical, bearing umbels of many flowers. Involucre of 
numerous subulate fringed bractes. Calyx 5-cleft 
segments all reflexed. Nectariferous tube about twice 
the length of the calyx, slightly flattened on each side. 
Petals 5, ligulate, of a dark purple colour, with a few 
linear spots at the base, the two upper ones reflexed 
Filaments 10, united into a tube, five only bearing an- 
thers, fertile ones nearly equal in length, about the 
length of the lower petals, sterile ones short, erect 
and subulate. Po//ew orange-coloured. -S^y/e pale red' 
hairy at the base and smooth upwards. Stigmas 6 
reflexqd. ' 
This neat little plant is a mule production, and was 
raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a seed of H. 
melanantha that had been fertilized with the pollen of 
