Descr. A slender, graceful, climbing plant, its petioles 

 serving as tendrils. These petioles, as well as the young 

 stems and branches, are clothed with patent hairs. Leaves 

 rarely simple, ternate, or quinato-pinnate ; leaflets on long 

 petiolules, ovato-acuminate, quite entire, with frequently 

 three, nearly parallel, principal nerves, which are branched 

 and reticulated. Peduncles solitary, single-flowered ; the 

 flowers, in the present instance, five and six inches across. 

 Sepals of a delicate lilac-blue colour, that is, blue with a 

 considerable tinge of purple or lilac, not really blue (or 

 caeruleous), beneath with a central green band. Stamens 

 numerous ; filaments green ; anthers dark purple. 



