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548 Flowers axillary and solitary, or racemose or subumbelled on a scapiform peduncle. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-partite. Corolla more or less oblique or curved; tube long or short; lobes 5, spreading, imbricate in the bud, one of the lateral ones on the outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments short; anthers reniform, the cells diverging at the base, confluent at the tip. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma capitate; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule 2-celled, turgid or sub-compressed, grooved on each side, loculicidally 2-valved, the placentas attached to the middle of the valves. Seeds numerous; testa loose, reticulate.

1. O. macrocarpa, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 198.—Stems stout, erect from a short thick creeping rhizome, 9–24 in. high, purplish below, glabrous or with faint hairy lines recurrent from the bases of the bracts. Radical leaves numerous, on stout petioles 2–6 in. long; blade 1–5 in., ovate-oblong to broadly oblong or orbicular, obtuse or subacute, cuneate at the base or narrowed into the petiole, crenate, dark-green above, paler beneath, very thick and coriaceous, quite glabrous except the margins towards the base, which are ciliate. Flowering-stem very stout. Cauline leaves 1 or 2 pairs, ovate or oblong, almost connate at the base, sessile. Inflorescence of 4–8 superposed whorls of pedicelled flowers. Bracts 3–6 in a whorl, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous,