PLANT DESCRIPTION. 141 



Description of Fig. 25O. 



ROOTS moniliform. 



STEM erect, slender, herbaceous, round. 



LEAVES radical and cauline, ternately compound. 

 Cauline leaves alternate ; leaflets lobed ; petioles 

 spreading at base. 



INFLORESCENCE solitary, terminal. 



FLOWER. CALYX ; sepals 5, polysepalous, regular, 

 spreading, ovate : COROLLA ; petals, none : STAMENS 

 numerous ; filaments threadlike ; anthers oblong : 

 PISTIL ; carpels many ; stigma sessile on the upper, 

 inner face of carpel. 



