HOAREA retusa.
Notched-petaled Hoarea.
H. retusa, acaulis, foliis pinnatifidis laciniatis bipinnati-
fidisve pilosis; foliolissegmentisque patentibus elliptico-
lanceolatis subacutis integerrimis laciniatisque, stipulis
subulato-linearibus petiolo adhærentibus, scapo subdivise)
villoso, umbellis multifloris compactis, petalis patentibus
superioribus retusis, tubo nectarifero calyce subæquali v. paulo longiore.
Hoarea retusa. Swt. hort. brit. addenda.
Root tuberous, clothed with a hard brown shell. Stem
none. Leaves variable, pinnatifid, bipinnatifid or laciniate,
very hairy: leaflets or segments numerous, spreading, more
or less divided or entire, scarcely acute, but sometimes
bluntly rounded, of a light green colour. Petioles flattened
on the upper side and rounded on the lower, thickly clothed
with unequal spreading hairs, as is every other part of the
plant, except the corolla. Stipules adhering to the petioles
a great way up, terminated in a subulately linear taper point. Scapes erect, a little branched, clothed at the base of the
peduncles with gmall leaves, and broadly lanceolate acute
bractes. Peduncles cylindrical. Umbels many-flowered,
compact. Involucre of several linear, taper-pointed, fringed
bractes. Calyon 5-cleft, of a brownish purple; segments lanceolate,
acute, concave, the upper one largest and bluntest,
erect; the others reflexed. Nectariferous tube about the
length of the calyx. Petals 5, ligulate, widely spreading,
narrow at the base, or having a long unguis : upper ones
largest, reflexed from about the middle, the points retuse or
notched; upper part of a dark purple with lighter margins,
and spotted at the base with numerous small dark purple
spots; lower petals flesh coloured, with lighter edges. Fila