plant branching at the base; stems prostrate, 2–4 ft. long, rather slender, unifariously puberulous; leaves petiolate, palmately 5–7-lobed, cuneately narrowed into the 1/4– 1/3 in. long petiole, glabrous, with the exception of a few minute hairs on the midrib beneath and sometimes about the basal part; middle lobe 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, linear, acute; lateral lobes very much shorter, linear or attenuate from the base to an acute point, all spreading and the upper pair falcately incurved; umbels lateral at the nodes and terminal, pedunculate, 5–8-flowered; peduncle 5–10 lin. long, unifariously puberulous; bracts minute; pedicels 1 1/2–2 lin. long, unifariously puberulous; sepals 3/4 lin. long, lanceolate or ovate-oblong, obtuse (not acuminate as originally described), glabrous; corolla-lobes widely spreading, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad; oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely pointed, glabrous on both sides; outer corona-segments erect, the 5 alternating with the corolla-lobes 2/5 lin. long, linear or subspathulate, obtuse; the 5 opposite the corolla-lobes 1/2 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, with the infolded side lobes standing in front of them 3/4 lin. long, linear, obtuse; inner corona-lobes erect, 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, oblong, obtuse or notched at the apex; staminal column 2/5 lin. long; style produced into a beak 2/3– 3/4 lin. beyond the erect anther-tips; follicles usually solitary, 3–4 1/2 lin. long, obtriangular, with 3 spreading spines at the subtruncate top, glabrous. null