DIMACRIA Smithiana.
Mr. E. D. Smith’s Dimacria.
D. Smithiana, acaulis, foliis pilosis canescentibusc 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.
Root 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 terminal
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 connected
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, connected
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
Q 2