Descr. oot an irregular tuber, about the size of a 
small potato. Stems one or more from the root, eight 
to twelve inches high, stout, succulent, flexuous and 
ascending, unbranched. Leaves pale green, glaucous, 
rather fleshy, lower opposite or in a false whorl, from 
where the stem leaves the ground, a span long and less, 
pinnatisect, long-petioled; pinnules few, opposite and 
alternate, an inch long or less, obovate, obtuse or apicu- 
late, entire or with one or two irregular lobes or segments; 
nerves flabellate, faint; cauline leaves or bracts very large, 
sessile, one inch long or less, broadly cuneate, subacute or 
with the tip rounded; base often rounded or cordate, 
glaucous, usually longer than the peduncles. Flowers few, 
distant; pedicels slender. Sepals very minute, mem- 
branous, white, irregularly toothed or crenate. Corolla 
one and a half inch long, golden yellow with a brownish 
tip to the spur; tube gibbously convex below, not half as 
long as the very stout curved horizontal cylindric spur, 
the tip of which is incurved and obtuse; tips of limb 
subequal in length, with broadly incurved margins, the 
upper broadest and rounded, the lower ovate obtuse. 
Ovary oblong; style very slender, stigma erect disciform 
lobulate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Sepals; 2, bundle of stamens ; 3, pistil :—al/ enlarged. 
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