Description of Plant 191 



reniform, surface hairy, especially upon the 

 margins and veins. Stipules present, slightly 

 membranous, undivided, lanceolate. 

 Inflorescence. — Single-flowered, the flower-stalks growing 

 from the axils of the leaves and bearing two 

 small nearly opposite linear bracts about the 

 centre. 



Mower- 

 Calyx. — Polysepalous ; five sepals, inferior, 

 irregular, each sepal broad in centre and pointed 

 towards the two extremities, green, hairy. 



Corolla.- — Polypetalous ; five petals, hypo- 

 gynous. Irregular, either purple or white; in the 

 former case the lower petal has several darker 

 lines converging towards interior of flower ; the 

 lateral petals have a hairy tuft near mouth of 

 tube; the inferior petal is prolonged into a short 

 blunt spur. 



Andrcedum. — Stamens free, five in number, 

 hypogynous, almost sessile, the filament being 

 very short ; connective prolonged beyond the 

 anthers as an orange-coloured mass ; two of the 

 stamens spurred, the spurs passing into the spur 

 of corolla. 



Gyncecium. — Syncarpous, three carpels, supe- 

 rior ; ovary one-celled, with three parietal pla- 

 centas and numerous ovules ; surface of ovary 

 hairy ; style curved ; stigma hooked. 



