when bruised a peculiar heavy smell, which Thunberg 
likens to the poisonous odour of Mandragora. 
Duscr. A shrub six to ten feet high, sometimes a small 
tree; glabrous pubescent or almost tomentose; branches 
round, smooth, soft; rather stout. Leaves soft and flaccid, 
the lower very large and trifid, the upper broadly ovate 
or orbicular-ovate, rarely cordate, long-acuminate, triple- 
nerved at the base which is more or less suddenly con- 
tracted into the petiole, margins quite entire or obscurely 
undulate (I have not seen them in the native or cultivated 
State so serrate as they are in the plant cultivated at Kew); 
petiole one and a half to three inches long, slender, terete. 
Cymes numerous, axillary and terminal, long-peduncled, 
much trichotomously branched, suberect and drooping ; 
branches spreading and pedicels very slender; bracts small, 
caducous. Calye half an inch long, ellipsoid or ovoid, 
five-angled, acutely five-lobed above the middle, red-brown. 
Corolla white; tube more or less exserted, very slender, 
sometimes twice as long as the calyx, slightly curved; limb 
nearly one inch in diameter, segments nearly equal, elliptic, 
obtuse or subacute, horizontally spreading. Stamens with 
the filaments longer than the eorolla; anthers oblong. 
Style very slender. Fruit four-lobed, included in the some- 
what enlarged calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, fl. wer eut open longitudinally ; 2, anthers; 3, stigma; 4, section of evary = 
—all enlarged. 
