sides, the margin distinctly serrated: on the underside and at 
the margin, there are numerous hairs, tipped with unctuous 
glands. Stipules capillaceo-multifid, the segments termi- 
nated byagland. Tendrils hairy. Involucre placed close 
beneath the calyx, of three leaves, which are pinnatifid, 
with numerous slender, capillary segments, each tipped 
with a gland at the extremity. Calyx with a very short 
tube, above which is a constriction, and a depression un- 
derneath: segments five, spreading, oblong, pale-green 
without, white within. Petals of the same shape, white. 
Filaments of the nectary elongated, waved, white, bluish 
at the tip: in the centre of these is a double circular 
disk, the owter thick and fleshy, the inner thin and almost 
membranous ; these immediately surround the base of the 
staminal tube. Germen globose, hairy: Style slightly 
hairy : stigma subglobose. 
