genus Carystecia of Mr. Brown, but the involucre is here 
smaller than the calyx, and the general habit of the plant. is 
very different from that of the species which have been ranked 
there; so that we have thought it advisable to leave the 
Species in the generic group where we have found it. 
A villously furred annual plant. Stem herbaceous, round. 
Leaves cordately hastate, nearly three inches long, middle 
lobe ovately acuminate, cuspidate, lateral ones several times 
smaller, horizontal, very shortly ovate: petiole round, little 
shorter than the blades, nearly as thick as the branches. 
Peduncles solitary, 1-3 flowered much longer but slenderer 
than the petiole, longer than or about equal to the leaf, round, 
stiffish, sometimes twice or thrice divided at the top, with 
two oblongly acuminate bractes under each division : pedicles 
short. Floral bractes 2 under each flower, shorter than the 
calyx. Calyx foliaceous, large, unequal, villous, persistent, 
soft, recurvedly spreading, two outer leaflets by far the 
largest, equal to each other, broadly ovate, sharp pointed, 
opposite, nerved (mistaken by Willdenow for bractes?) 3 
mmner ones of the same shape as these, much smaller, and of 
different sizes from each other. Corolla pubescent on the 
outside, rotately funnelform ; limb obsoletely 5-cornered. 
Filaments subulate, membranous and winged, flattish, sub- 
pubescent, very shallowly adnate to the tube, every one re- 
ceived behind at their union with the faux by two small obso- 
lete teeth. Anthers pale, upright, sagittately linear, nearly: 
as Jong as the filaments. Pistil equal to the calyx: ger- 
men shaggy, semibilocular, 4-seeded: style capillary, hairy, 
coloured, undivided: stigmas 2, lobeshaped, divaricate, 
subovately oblong, thick, fleshy, granulated. 
