8B 
the fruit as of a roundish oyal form, and of the size of an 
ordinary Golden Pippin. 
From 4 to 7 feet high, herbaceous, densely furred with 
upright hair. Leaves distant, soft, yellowish green, three- 
lobed, cordately hastate, about 3 inches long, repandly 
subdentate, the teeth headed by a small bristle or point, 
o-nerved, shining through the pubescence at the under 
side, lobes acuminate: petioles glandless, thickish, round- 
ish, neryed, nearly twice shorter than the blade: stipules 
broadly semisagittate, herbaceous, short, ciliately multifid. 
Flowers. axillary, solitary, very tender, very fugacious, 
about. 2 inches over: peduncles glandless, filiform, stiff, 
3 times slenderer but longer than the petiole, shorter 
than the leaf, spreading. Involucre herbaceous, larger 
than the flower, of three leaflets, yellowish green, very close 
to the calyx. Calyx rather tender, dinted at the base, very 
shallowly urceolate, greenish on the outside, white on the 
inside ; segments oblong, obtuse, 3-neryed underneath, with 
_ the middle nerve carinately prominent hairy and terminating 
in a hornshaped point. Petals very tender, all white, placed 
at the mouth of the tube of the calyx, equal to and of the 
same shape as the segments of that. Crown radiantly 
outspread, variegated with white and violet: outer rays 
__ of two rows, longest, filiform, flexuose; inner ones placed 
- at their base, very short, of several rows, subulate, com- 
pact. Nectary slightly two-chambered: outer wall spring- 
ing from the foot of the shaft of the fructification, slightly 
coloured, deepish, quite entire, converging obliquely to- 
wards the short white denticulated operculum or cover. 
Shaft of the fructification yellowish green, dotted with 
purple. Styles whitish, widespread, clavate : stigmas nearly 
globular, green, nutant. Germen oyate, green, quite 
smooth, but little larger than the stigmas. 
In the West Indies it is called “ Love in a Mist,” from 
the appearance of the unexpanded flower when. enclosed in 
its curiously feathered inyolucre. 
