Deser.—An annual, glabrous herb, two to three feet 
high, with rather stout, branched, terete, succulent stems. 
Leaves alternate, three to six inches long, acute or acuminate, 
crenate with terminal or lateral cusps on the crenatures, or 
serrate with terminal cusps ; petiole of lower leaves long, of 
upper short; stipular glands globose. Pedwncles numerous, 
corymbosely disposed towards the tips of the stem and 
branches, naked below, terminated by short racemes, of 
which the flowers are often more or less whorled, or sub- 
umbellate ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; pedicels one 
half to one and a half inches long. Flowers golden-yellow. 
Sepals small, ovate or sub-orbicular, one-tenth to one- 
eighth of an inch long, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate. 
Standard orbicular, two-lobed, costa dorsally thickened or 
subalate. Wings with basal lobe produced upwards as 
a third lobe or lobule, terminal dolabriform ; dorsal auricle 
rounded. Lip two-thirds of an inch long, exclusive of the 
imeurved spur, infundibular or saccate. Ovary with a long 
beak, Capsules an inch to an inch and a half long, sub- 
erect, linear, obtuse, torulose, few- or many-seeded. 
Seed obovoid-oblon : 4 j 
smooth—J. D, H . orbicular, compressed, nearly 
Fig 1, portion of stem with ba 
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3, wing-petal; 4, stamens; 5, ca se of petiole and stipulary glands; 2, sepals 
psule; 6, seed :—all enlarged. 
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