part of the plant. Leaves distant, very variable, the lower ones 
the most compound, bipinnatifid, the intermediate ones commonly 
trifid, the uppermost ones entire, the latter and the segments 
of the others linear, attenuated, somewhat fleshy, grooved above. 
Flowers large, handsome. Peduncles axillary from the upper 
leaves, but shorter than they, slightly incrassated upwards and. 
there forming a toothed cup with the small subulate involucral 
scales: below bearing two small dracteoles. Sepals lanceolate, 
much acuminated, with two or three strong ribs. Corolla large, 
soon reflected, purple-lilac, paler below the middle; at the 
bottom each petal has a dark red-purple radiating spot. Staminal 
tube long. Anthers very numerous. Ovary oblong-ovate, downy, 
 five-celled. Style longer than the staminal tube, thickened 
upwards with five blunt stigmas. 
Fig. 1. Pistil, 2. Section of ditto, shewing the ovules :—magnified. 
