Descr. A slender graceful climber, clothed everywhere 
with soft white pubescence; branches very slender. 
Leaves long-petioled; leaflets five, two to three inches 
long, petiolulate, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtuse, 
acute or acuminate, with a long setaceous mucro, very 
membranous and delicate, pale green, pubescent on both 
surfaces, outer margin of outer pair sometimes lobed; 
petiole very slender, one to two inches long; petiolules a 
quarter to half an inch. Lacemes very numerous, solitary 
or several in the leaf-axils, and forming a panicle at the 
end of the branches, shortly peduncled, very slender, two 
to three and a half inches long, pendulous, snow-white, 
tomentose; bracts imbricate, one-third of an inch long, of 
the male stipitate, of the female sessile, ovate, concave, 
with a subulate recurved tip. Mats rt. half the length of 
the bract. Sepals six, ovate, subacute, three outer tomen- 
tose, three inner glabrous. Stamens, three perfect opposite 
the outer sepals, with short filaments and didymous 
anthers, alternating with three larger trowel-shaped stami- 
nodes; connective of perfect anthers broad behind and 
carunculate. Pistil rudimentary, columnar, but enlarged in ~ 
the upper half, tip three-fid. Frmane rt. Ovary ellipsoid, 
tomentose. Sepals very minute, obtuse. Staminodes most 
minute. Stigmas three, short, recurved.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of ¢ raceme; 2, ¢ flower; 3, outer sepal and stamen; 4, back 
of anther, showing the carunculate connective; 5, inner sepal and staminode; 6, 
rudimentary pistil; 7, portion of Q raceme; 8, bract and 9 flower; 9, outer 
sepal and staminode ; 10, top of ovary and stigmas; 11, inner sepal and stami- 
nodes :—all but fig. 7 enlarged. 
