longish petioles; blade patent, cordate, faintly 5-3-lobed, 
lobes shallow, acutely angular, deeply dentate, five-nerved, 
subrugose, an inch long or more, with two ovate lanceolate 
cuspidate smooth ciliate membranous stipules; cauline al- 
most sessile, opposite, placed nearly half way up the stem. 
Raceme continuous, distant from the two cauline leaves, 
upright, loosely scattered, many-flowered, patent. I/owers 
small, whitish, on round villous pedicles shorter than the 
calyx, with a nearly equal ovately round smooth denticu- 
late generally acuminate bracie at the base. Calyx pu- 
bescent, with straight whitish ovate pointed segments. Co- 
rolla rotate, white, petals five, unguiculate, inserted opposite 
to the intervals between the calyciue segments, claw or tail 
equalling these, blade roundish or elliptic, pinnately mul- 
tifidous, segments of almost capillary fineness. Stamens 
shorter than the calyx, placed within its thickened tube at 
the point where the petals are inserted. Filaments short, 
subulate, inflectent at the point: anthers roundish, yellow. 
Germen ovate, conic, green, minutely pubescent: stigmas 
2 obtuse points, continuous with the valves of the germen, 
equal to the stamens. 
The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in 
Mr. N. 8. Hodson’s collection at South Lambeth. 
SEE 
a A magnified dissected flower, showing the pistil, the stamens, and 
the insertion of the petals into the calyx. 
