Drscr. A slender, sparingly-branched, large shrub that 
climbs or supports itself amongst the surrounding trees of the 
forest, and in cultivation requires the support of a rafter or 
stout staff, glabrous, except the young racemes, which have a 
minute, scattered, and very deciduous stellate pubescence. 
- Stem covered with hemispheric warts. Leaves alternate, 
digitate ; stipule axillary, with its concavity to the stem, 
embracing the base of the raceme; petiole five to eight inches 
long, slender, swollen at the base and apex, warted in the 
lower half; leaflets five to seven, six to eight inches long, 
petiolulate, oblong-ovate -obovate- or -oblong, caudate-acumi- 
nate, quite entire, base rounded or cuneate; petiolule half to 
one and a half inch long, slender, almost globose at the base. 
Racemes a foot and upwards long, solitary and axillary or 
terminal and crowded, slender, spreading; bracts very deci- 
duous ; peduncles slender, half to three-quarters of an inch 
long ; pedicels quarter of an inch long, also slender. Flowers 
small, green. Calyx-tube one tenth of an inch long, hemi- 
spheric ; limb none. Pedals as long as the calyx-tube, ovate, 
cohering into a cap. Filaments slender, spreading, four times 
as long as the petals; anthers small, didymous. Ovary five- 
celled ; stigmas reduced to hemispheric papille. Fruit the 
size of a pepper-corn, globose, five-celled.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant; 2, portion of leaf-stem, with leaf and 
inflorescence of the natural size ; 3, flower ; 4, thesame with the petals cohering 
ma cap around the anthers; 5, the same with the petals removed ; 6, transverse 
section of ovary :—all magnified. 
