Its root is perennial, somewhat fusiform. The leaves
are broadly oblong, obtuse, toothed in our specimens, the
lower ones stalked, the rest sessile, the upper ones am-
plexicaul and somewhat hastate at the base. Racemes terminating
the branches, which bear, near the flowers, cordate,
acute and shortly toothed leaves. Pedicels downy.
Calyx-leaves ovate, obtuse, green, white and membranous
at the margin. Petals white, obovate with long claws.
Stamens as long as the claws. Fruit (scarcely mature)
cordate, the valves keeled, but somewhat ventricose, the
summit entire and bearing a style equal to its own length.
Stigma capitate.-—W. J. H.
