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HO AREA retusa. 
Notched-petaled ffoarea, 
H. retusa , acaulis, foliis pinnatifidis laciniatis bipmnati- 
fidisve pilosis; foliolis segmentisque patentibus elliptico- 
lanceolatis subacutis integerrimis laciniatisque, stipulis 
subulato-linearibus petiolo adhserentibus, scapo subdi- 
viso villoso, umbellis multifloris compactis, petalis pa- 
tentibus superioribus retusis, tubo nectarifero calyce 
subaequali v. paulo longiore. 
Hoarea retusa. Swt. hold, hr it. addenda. 
Root tuberous, clothed with a hard brown shell. Stem 
none. Leaves variable, pinnatifid, bipinnatifid or laciniate, 
very hairy: leaflets or segments numerous, spreading, more 
or less divided or entire, scarcely acute, but sometimes 
bluntly rounded, of a light green colour. Petioles flattened 
on the upper side and rounded on the lower, thickly clothed 
with unequal spreading hairs, as is every other part of the 
plant, except the corolla. Stipules adhering to the petioles 
a great way up, terminated in a subulately linear taper point. 
Scapes erect, a little branched, clothed at the base of the 
peduncles with small leaves, and broadly lanceolate acute 
bractes. Peduncles cylindrical. Umbels many-flowered, 
compact. Involucre of several linear, taper-pointed, fringed 
bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, of a brownish purple; segments lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, concave, the upper one largest and bluntest, 
erect; the others reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the 
length of the calyx. Petals 5, ligulate, widely spreading, 
narrow at the base, or having a long unguis : upper ones 
largest, reflexed from about the middle, the points retuse or 
notched; upper part of a dark purple with lighter margins, 
and spotted at the base with numerous small dark purple 
spots; lower petals flesh coloured, with lighter edges. Fila- 
