to two feet high. Leaves sessile, acutely auricled at the 
base ; radical early withering, lyrately-pinnatisect ; terminal 
lobe cordate, lateral lobes in four to five pairs, small, sessile, 
all sinuate-toothed; cauline leaves obovate-oblong or pandu- - 
reform, subacute, sinuate-toothed. Flowers one and a quarter 
inch in diameter, in lax terminal racemes, pale violet-blue, or 
slender ebracteate pedicels. Calyx three-quarters of .an inch 
long ; sepals coloured, the two lateral saccate at the base. 
Petals with claws as long as the sepals ; blade orbicular- 
obovate, spreading. Anthers linear, yellow. Pod three to 
four inches long, obtusely four-angled, narrow, nearly 
straight; valves keeled, slender ; Septum membranous, per- 
forated ; style slender, subulate; stigmas combined into a 
conical tip. Seeds one-seriate, small, oblong, in one row; 
cotyledons conduplicate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamens and pistil ; 2, pod; 3, seeds ; 4, seed : —all but f. 3 enlarged. 
