Descr. Root perennial. Leaves mostly radical, and these are 
spathulate, that 1s, ovate or oblong, rarely subovate, acute, en- 
tire, hairy and subtomentose (as is every part of the plant), 
_ three-nerved, tapering below into a long petiole. Flowering- 
stems (they may almost be called scapes) erect, panicled above, 
bearing a few small, sessile, ovate, acute /eaves, sometimes op- 
posite. Branches of the panicle bearing one-sided or secund 
racemes. Pedicels bracteated at the base. Mowers very droop- 
Ing in bud, erect when fully expanded in the sun. Calyz five- 
 sepaled, glabrous. Sepals, two outer small, three mner large, 
broad-ovate, very acute, and very concave. Pedals five, bright 
_ yellow, large, obcordate, spreading, with a dark blood-coloured 
spot at the base. Stamens numerous; filaments rather short, 
purple; anthers subglobose, deep yellow, almost orange. Ovary 
_ globose. Stigma globose, sessile. 
