the leaves of the involucre have each a little tooth-like ap- 
pendage upon their inner surface; while in the former the 
flowers are sessile, and there is no tooth-like appendage 
upon the involucral leaves. 
Our drawing was made last summer, at Mr. Colvill’s 
Nursery ; where the plant was cultivated in the stove. 
Stems erect, bright green, covered with soft recurved 
hairs, and small, scattered, whitish prickles. Leaves on 
long stalks, coarsely toothed, smoothish, without glands 
beneath, of two forms; sometimes palmate-5-parted, with 
lanceolate lobes ; sometimes roundish, undivided. Petioles 
prickly beneath, rigid, much longer than the lower leaves. 
Stipules membranous, subulate. Flowers large, sulphur- 
coloured, brownish purple at bottom, with a soft, hairy, 
unarmed peduncle, much shorter than the petiole. Leaf- 
lets of the involucre 8, hispid, spreading, nearly equal to 
the calyx, linear-lanceolate, below the end a little con- 
tracted, and there furnished with a tooth-like appendage 
on their inner surface. Calyx 5-lobed, covered all! over 
with soft recurved hairs, and hispid with little prickles ; 
the lobes acuminate, 3-lobed. Corolla spread open, a little 
wavy at edge, quickly withering. Ovary ovate, silky, 
5-celled, with four seeded cells, and smooth uniform ovules. 
J.L. 
