Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh, and flowered at Kew in 
a cool frame in March, continuing in flower till May. 
Descr. Whole plant clothed with more or less glandular 
jointed soft hairs. Rootstock woody, as thick as the little 
finger, covered with the withered bases of the petiole. 
Leaves three to six inches long, spreading, membranous, 
ovate or elliptic, rarely spathulate or obovate, contracted 
into a very broad petiole of variable length, coarsely 
crenate-toothed; nerves prominent, reticulate. Scapes 
numerous, four to eight inches high, slender, bearing two 
to six superposed whorls of three to six flowers, subtended 
by an involucre of three or four bracts. Bracts a quarter of 
an inch to an inchlong, sessile, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, 
toothed, usually three-nerved. Pedicels slender, spreading, 
unequal. Calyx a quarter of an inch long, cleft nearly 
to the base into five ovate acuminate membranous sepals, 
which are spreading or recurved. Corolla golden yellow, 
tube slender, one-third to one-half of an inch long, hairy; 
limb half an inch in diameter, flat; lobes obcordate, quite 
entire, mouth small. Anthers linear, sessile; style long or 
short, stigma capitate. Oapsule globose, after dehiscence 
conico-ovoid from a broad base, split to the base into five 
membranous subacute valves. Seeds minute, angular, 
black, granulate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, pistil; 3, capsule and calyx; 4, seels :—all enlarged. 
