ovato-oblong, sinuated. Sfem-leaves sessile, oblong, pinnatifid. 
Flowers large, drooping, arranged in an elongated leafy raceme, 
compound below. Peduncles and pedicels rather short, curved 
downwards, erect in fruit. Calya of two oblong, very concave, 
deciduous sepals. Corolla of four subrotundo-obcordate, spread- 
ing, pale-blue peta/s, having sometimes a slight tinge of green. 
Stamens very numerous. Anthers orange-yellow, crowded so as 
to form a large ring around the style. Ovary elliptical-oblong, 
clothed with a dense mass of erect, appressed, rufous, somewhat 
plumose se/a, one-celled, with six or seven parietal receptacles. 
Style cylindrical, as long as the ovary. Stigma capitate, of six or 
seven dark green, erect lobes. 
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of the ovary :—magnijied. 
