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Folia rigidule carnosa, integerrima v. repanda, radicalia Vv. 
caudicum, que florendi tempore numerose rosulata, vulgo cordata 
v. cordato-rotundata, acutiuscula v. pauca rotundato-obovata, r.r. 
spathulata; -petioli lamina iisdem duplo—triplo et ultra breviore, 
decurrente, a basi tenui sensim dilatati; folia caulina sparsa, plu- 
rima spathulata, obtusiuscula, rosularibus breviora. 
Racemi angusti, ramum dimidium demum zquantes v. supe- 
rantes. Bractex minute, tenues sed persistentes, subovat&, acute, 
pedicellos ®quantes v. superantes, his demum superate. Pedi- 
celli brevissimi, recurvati, demum paullo aucti et incrassati. Flores 
ut in A. sesamoide magnitudine mediocri, corolla alba, basi 
ochroleuca. 
Calyx mox expansus, crassiusculus, 5-lobus; lobi late trian- 
gulari-ovati, superus reliquis duplo triplove brevior. Petala 4—5, 
calycem subduplo superantia, duorum superiorum unguis appendice 
tenuissima, apice brevissime ligulari subretusa et dentata auctus, 
lamina s&pius 7-partita, laciniis oblongo-spathulatis, rotundato- 
obtusis, nervo obscuriore (viridulo), sub apice evanescente, medio 
percursis, lacinia - intermedia reliquis lateraliter decrescentibus 
paullo major; petala lateralia exappendiculata, vulgo 5-partita, 
laciniis ut in superioribus, imum dum adest angustum subinte- 
grum. Tubus stamineus minute squamuloso-papillosus, in discum 
tenuem, subauricularem, pallidum, lateraliter expansus. 
Stamina 10—12 (—14); filamenta subulata, luteola, s&pe 
parce papilloso-asperula (he vero papille videntur tantum gra- 
nula pollinis adhzrentia quia in aqua calida disparent); anther& 
crocex, ovato-elliptice, apice retus®&, basi loculis divergentibus 
bilobe, filamentis dimidio et ultra breviores. 
Germina 5--6, viridi-lutea, apice dorso turgide-gibboso; gib- 
ber apicem cuspidis stylaris uncinatum attingens. Capsule vulgo 
5, in carpophoro demum suberoso-incrassato stellatim expanso, 
basi etiam ventricos® ibique papilloso-squamuloso asper&, medio 
paullo constricte, gibbere apicem cuspidis stylaris superante, de- 
mum basi excepta, marginibus cenniventibus claus&; gibber api- 
calis tune induratus, subcapitato incrassatus et mitrato-separa- 
