Pistils 3–10, sessile, forming coriaceous many-seeded pods.—Perennial herbs, with ample palmate or pedate leaves, and large, solitary, nodding, early vernal flowers.

For the first, the pieces, which are called “races” or “hands,” from their irregular palmate form, are washed and simply dried in the sun.

It was a large tree, with palmate leaves having seven fingers.