altho' not the smallest of its genus as its specific name would 
imply. 
Stem climbing, seldom exceeding ten feet. Leaves dis» 
tant, dark green, subcordately-three-lobed, five-nerved, 
largest about two inches long, side lobes narrowest and far 
divergent from the middle one, slightly villous at the base 
and margin, but more conspicuously so at the petiole, which 
is about half an inch long, with two small purple opposite 
glands just below the blade. Stipules small, subulate. Pe- 
dicles one-flowered axillary, generally in pairs, subpubescent, 
as long as the petiole but much slenderer, flexile, ‘jointed 
and thicker about the middle: ¿nvolucre none. Flowers 
small, of a yellowish green, fragrant, nutant. Calyx firm, 
patent, purplish-black beneath, and marked with ten radiant 
streaks, base shallow convex, not dinted, a small pointed 
tubercle at the fork of each division of the limb, segments 
ovate oblong, obtuse. Corolla none. Crown double, twice 
shorter than the calyx; external rays filiform, obtuse, many, 
near, but not contiguous, upright and green below, re- 
curved and yellow above; inner alternating with these, 
twice as short and twice as slender, capitately widened above; 
operculum plaited, of a violet colour. Column rather higher 
than the calyx. Germen globular, smooth, green. Berry 
spherical, nearly the size and colour of a black currant. 
The drawing was made from a plant cultivated in the 
hothouse at the nursery of Messrs Whitley, Brames, and 
Milne, King's Road, Fulham. » Us 
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