a half high, stout, succulent, terete, simple, leafy, glabrous below, 
pubescent above. Root-/eaves numerous, very large (as large as 
a small cabbage, J. D. H.), cordate, very obtuse and even retuse, 
quite glabrous, succulent, glossy, parallelo-venose, on very long 
thick petioles, which are grooved on the upper side, sometimes 
tinged with purple: wpper leaves gradually smaller, at length 
sessile and obovato-spathulate. Corym terminal, large, four 
inches across, compound, leafless. Calya deeply cut into five, 
oblong /odes, hispid on the outside. Corolla with a short tube 
and large spreading limb, more than half an inch across, of five 
rounded lobes, of a blue colour, gradually becoming paler and 
almost white towards the margin, the disc with a dark-purple 
ray. Five, yellow, glandular scales (as in Myosotis, etc.) close the 
mouth of the tube. Stamens included, on very short filaments, 
arising from near the mouth of the tube. Ovary 4-lobed, de- 
pressed and quite flattened at the top. Style very short. Stigma 
two-lobed. #ruit of four, dorsally-compressed, nearly erect, sub- 
cordate, broadly-winged nuts or achenia, attached to a quadran- 
gular receptacle, which is terminated by the short remains of the 
style. Seed ovate, acuminate, laterally attached. 
Fig. 1. Corolla, with the tube laid open, and showing the stamens. 2. 
Calyx and pistil. 3. Fruit, with its broadly winged nuts (represented as too 
much incorporated at the top). 4. The same, cut through transversely, and 
Showing the receptacle. 5. Nut, cut through vertically. 6. Seed. 7. Eim- 
bryo :—magnitied. 
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