Descr. Root perennial, tuberous. Stem five to six feet 
high, stout, erect, branched, green, tinged with purple, gla- 
brous. Lower leaves large, and on moderately long, broad, 
and channelled petioles ;—deeply cut, indeed to the very 
petiole, into three, cuneate segments, tapering at the base, 
regularly toothed and cut towards the top, the side ones 
very broad and deeply divided, but not to the base, the 
whole is glabrous, strongly veined and reticulated : upper 
leaves sessile, gradually passing into more and more entire, 
small bracteas, among the upper flowers. Racemes large, 
compound, pedicels slightly hairy above. Flowers large, 
showy, of an intense and very bright blue colour. Galea 
semicircular, but moderately compressed at the sides, the 
apex acute. Nectaries on long, glabrous stalks, the saccate 
Spur very short. 
Fig. 1. Two of the Petals with the Nectaries, Stamens, and Pistils:— 
magnified, 
