half foot long, linear-spathulate or oblong-lanceolate, sinuate- 
pinnatifid ; cauline sessile. Raceme erect, lax-flowered, one 
to two feet high; pedicels distant, the lower sometimes two- 
flowered. Flowers pale-golden or sulphur-yellow, two to three 
inches in diameter. Sepals an inch long. Petals broadly 
obovate. Stamens with orange anthers. Ovary oblong, co- 
vered with erect yellow bristles; style columnar; stigma six- 
to ten-lobed; placenta six to ten. Capsule subclavate, on a 
stiff erect pedicel, densely strigose with yellow hairs. Seeds 
with a cancellated spongy testa —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. Transverse section of ditto:—both magnified. 
