PLANT DESCRIPTION 221 
Leaves.—Both radical (7.¢., produced from the root- 
stock) and cauline (1.¢., produced on the stem) ; eauline 
leaves alternate, simple; lower leaves deeply divided; 
upper narrow and not divided; a well developed sheath 
is present especially in the radical leaves; blades 
reticulate veined (1.e., net veined), hairy, exstipulate 
(no stipules). 
Inflorescence.—A scorpioid ecyme, 27.¢., the first 
flower is terminal, the next flower being produced on 
the stalk behind this and then raised above it, this 
going on alternately first one side and then the other. 
Flower.—Hypogynous (2¢. below the ovary). 
Complete (7.¢., has all parts, viz. sepals, petals, stamens, 
earpels); actinomorphic (7.¢., is regular, and ean be 
divided into two similar halves in any direction in 
the vertical plane); about three-quarters of an inch 
in diameter, yellow. 
Calyx.—Five sepals, aposepalous (2.¢., sepals not 
united), inferior (1.e., fixed to the receptacle below. the 
ovary) hairy, green. 
Corolla. Petals five, ecieraloue: hypogyneous (1.¢., 
fixed to the receptacle below the ovary) ; Getic 
showing a beautiful sheen; each petal with a nectary 
or honey gland appearing at its base as a_ small 
swelling. 
Andreecium (i.¢e., the male organ or stamens of the 
flower), stamens indefinite (7.¢., very numerous), hypo- 
eynous, free (i.e., not united with one another) ; 
filament (4¢., stalk of stamen) long; anther (1.e., little 
knob at top of stamen) two lobed; wtrorse dehiscence 
(1.e., the groove of the anther opens towards the centre brute le 
of the flower) ; basifixed (7.e., the filament is fixed to the 
base of the anther). 
Gynecium (i.e. the female organ of the flower 
consisting of the carpels), carpels indefinite ; apocarpous 
(i.e., the carpels are not joined together but are 
scattered cer the surface of the receptacle) ; spirally 
