plished, exceedingly variable, simple or trifoliate; the /eaflets 
ovate or subrhomboid, serrated. /V/owers large, handsome, yel- 
low, arising from opposite, scaly buds. Peduncle elongated, often 
drooping and bracteated. Calya deeply cut into four, lanceolate, 
erecto-patent lobes, large in proportion to the flower. Corolla 
large, bright-yellow, streaked with orange within the short tube, 
campanulate-rotate, segments oblong. Stamens two, as long. as 
the tube and inserted at the very base of the corolla. Anthers 
ovato-subsagittate. Pisti/ small, much shorter than the calyx- 
lobes. Ovary globose, two-celled ; ce//s many-seeded, attached 
to a longitudinal placenta. Style short. Strgma large, of two 
globose lobes. 
Fig. 1. Corolla and stamens. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of 
ovary :-—magnified. 
