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herbaceous, green above, often slightly paler beneath ; veins 

 delicate, erect-patent, parallel ; terminal one oval-ovate, cuneate 

 with entire margins towards the base, 8-42mm. long, 6-27mm. 

 wide ; lateral ones somewhat oblique in form, broadly cuneate 

 below, slightly smaller than the terminal one ; lower lateral 

 one, if any, minute and remote from the upper ternary ones, 

 few-dentate ; petiole slender, attaining about 6|cm. in length, 

 thinly and spreadingly piloso- pubescent ; stipules adnate to the 

 petiole at the base, lobes ovate, oval-ovate, subulato-ovate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, ovato-lanceolate, or lanceolate, acuminate, 

 usually entire or rarely few-dentate, membranaceous, anasto- 

 motic- veined, very thinly piloso-pubescent dorsally and ciliated, 

 attaining about 9mm. long, the inferior ones broader and the 

 basal ones aphyllous and vaginiform ; cauline leaves shortly 

 petiolate, with few-dentate oval to ovate short-acuminate 

 stipules, the uppermost ones usually unifoliolate ; leaflets narrow 

 and cuneate, flabellately laciniato-serrate above. Flowering 

 stem erect, slightly exceeding the radical leaves, slender, loosely 

 ramose above, spreadingly thinly piloso-pubescent. Flowers 

 often long-peduncled, proportionally larger, 18— 20mm. in 

 diameter, yellow ; peduncle gracile, thinly piloso-pubescent, 

 Bracteoles 5, patent, slightly longer or shorter than the calyx- 

 segments, acuminate, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate with the 

 entire margins and 3-nerves, or narrowly cuneate and trifid with 

 sub-5-nerves, green, thin, thinly piloso-pubescent, 6-8mm. long. 

 Calyx green, thinly piloso-pubescent dorsally and ciliated ; tube 

 short and depressed ; segments 5, patent, deltoid-subulate, 

 acuminate, thin, with a midrib and veinlets, trinerved towards 

 the base. Petals 5, patent, longer than the calyx-segments, 

 sessile, obcordate, 7-9mm. long, 6-8mm. wide, deeper coloured 

 at the base. Stamens numerous, shorter than the calyx ; 

 filaments subulato-filiform ; anther ovato-oblong. Ovaries 

 placed on the small globose and very thinly pilose receptacle, 

 many, minute, close, sessile, subreniform-ovoid, glabrous ; style 

 ventral under the top, less than 1mm. in length, erect, filiform, 

 about 3-times as long as the ovary ; stigma sub-capitate and 

 terminal. 



