Desc. Stems numerous, from a stout woody root-stock, ten 

 to fifteen feet long, twining, not tubercled, cobwebby or 

 covered with thin white wool, as are the petioles, nerves of 

 the leaves below, peduncles, and sepals. Leaves on terete 

 petioles two to four inches long, rounded-cordate, four to five 

 inches long, obtusely or acutely acuminate, obscurely sinuate. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, shorter than the 

 petioles, stout, terete. Bracts very small, short, ovate, obtuse, 

 persistent. Sepals two-thirds of an inch long, concave, obtuse. 

 Seeds densely four inches in diameter, very sweet-scented. 

 Corolla white, clothed with brown wool. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Disk and pistil. 2. Seed with its woolly covering. 3. The same 

 removed :— all hut Fig. 1 of the nat. size. 



