1. Incredibly beautiful, award-winner Tulip 'Ballade' is a spectacular tulip with fabulous royal purple goblet-shaped flowers with pointed, reflexed petals and fine ivory edges

2. Cordate or Auricled at base, acutish, entire : flowers on very short spreading or soon reflexed pedicels; sepals narrow, 1J or 2 lines long, the narrow purplish petals a half longer: stamens included; anthers short: pods reflexed, 1 to 1J inches long, subterete, beaked, on pedicels a line or two long.?Collected by Dr

3. Despite encompassing an astonishing range of leaf complexity, all species of Adiantum share a unique character state not observed in other ferns: sporan - gia borne directly on the reflexed leaf margin or “false indusium” (pseudoindusium).

4. The new species is characterized morphologically by: 4 cephalic setae, a very small buccalcavity without any sclerotized structures, an esophagus, with 2 bulbs, an excretory pore located posterior to the esophagus, reflexed diorchic ovaria, outstretched diochic testes, and 1 vesicular pre-anal organ in the male.