leaves and flowers, but no tendrils have been hitherto seen. 

 Branchlets indistinctly striated and very patent, and, as well as 

 the leaves and petioles while young, clothed with white arachnoid 

 hairs, at length subglabrous, of the thickness of a finger, and, 

 like the entire plant, abounding in aqueous juice. Leaves (at 

 first plicate and albo-tomentose) long-petiolate, the lowest one 

 on the branch tri-, the rest quinquefoliate. Leaflets ovate-ellip- 

 tical or obovate, shortly petiolulate, unequally toothed, arachnoid- 

 pubescent on both sides, the terminal one longer, petiolulate, 

 four to five inches long, the lowest pair inequilateral at the 

 base, the rest more or less cordate. Stipules two, at the base 

 of the petiole, opposite, broad lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous. 

 Peduncles, or by abortion terminal, about equal in length with the 

 petioles, slightly striated, patent, slenderer than the petioles, 

 dichotomo-ramulose, the branchlets obliquely erect, forming a 

 broadish corymb. Flowers tetramerous, yellowish-green, rather 

 small. Calyx very short, obsoletely dentate, the teeth sometimes 

 scarcely distinguishable. Corolla of four petals, induplicate-val- 

 vate. Petals fleshy, induplicate at the apex, cohering by pairs, 

 calyptrate, deciduous, very cucullate at the apex, white, fugacious. 

 Disk much developed, consisting of four columnar teeth, quite 

 distinct from each other, obliquely truncate at the apex, auran- 

 tiaco-glandulose, enlarged after the flowering. Stamens four. 

 Antners obovate, incumbent, yellow. Ovary ovate or ovate-co- 

 nical, longer than the tubercles of the disk, two- celled. Style, 

 when flowering, as long as the stamens, firm, straight, terminated 

 by a simple (not capitate !) stigma. Fruit, which I have not 

 seen, said to be a berry, the size of a pea, reddish- violet. — Wel~ 

 wit scli, I. c. 



Pig. 1. A very reduced figure of a flowering plant. 2. Upper part of a 

 flowering branch with young leaf,— natural size. 3. Fullv-developed leaf,— 

 natural size. 4. Flower-bud and fullv-developed flower. 5. Ovary, with its four 

 large glands at the base. 6. Calyptrate state of the corolla -.—Figures 4-6 more 

 or less magnified. 



