A biennial herb with tuberous roots. Leaves scattered with slender petioles, fleshy,reniform, rarely cordate-orbicular with a wide shallow sinus; lobes narrow, incisor-dentate, or laciniate, ultimate segments or teeth dissected. Flowers blue in looseracemes, floral leaves much reduced and passing in to trifid or entire and linear-laneolate bracts. Fruits oblong, conspicuously reticulate. Seeds obovoid toobpyramidal. (India)