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DIM ACM A Smithiana. 
Mr. E. D. Smith's Dimacria. 
D. Smithiana , acaulis, foliis pilosis canescentibus; infe- 
rioribus cordato-ovatis obtusis indivisis 2-3-sectisve: 
superioribus pinnatisectis, foliolis segmentisque rotun- 
dato-ovatis, umbella composita, petalis lineari-spathu- 
latis superioribus basi lineato-maculatis. 
jRoot tuberous. Stemless. Leaves variable, clothed 
with numerous short white hairs, which gives them a ca- 
nescent appearance : lower ones simple, cordately ovate, 
rounded, others 2 to 3-cleft, pinnatifid or pinnate, the ter¬ 
minal leaflet largest: leaflets or segments all roundly ovate, 
ciliate. Petioles slender, very hairy. Stipules small, su- 
bulately linear, joined to the base of the petioles, and con¬ 
nected some way up them. Scapes several from the same 
root, branching, sometimes producing a leaf or two at the 
base of the peduncles, clothed with short spreading hairs, 
as are the peduncles and calyces. Peduncles stoutish, 
cylindrical. Umbels many-flowered. Involucre of several 
linear acute bractes. Pedicles scarcely any, shorter than 
the bractes. Calyx 5-cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, 
upper one largest, erect; the others reflexed. Petals 5, 
linearly spathulate, of a bright flesh colour ; the two upper 
ones broadest, slightly reflexed from about the middle, and 
marked from there to the base with small linear spots, and 
short lines: lower ones spreading. Filaments 10, con¬ 
nected at the base, 5 only bearing anthers, two lower ones 
longest and straight, upper one very short. Style a little 
longer than the stamens, pale purple. Stigmas 5, purple, 
reflexed. 
This pretty little plant is of hybrid origin, and was 
raised at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, from a seed of 
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