Descr. A glabrous slender twiner, growing eight feet 
high, copiously leafy. Stem woody below, branches six- 
angled. Leaves petioled, two to three inches long, ovate- 
cordate, obtuse or acute, waved, thinly rigid, bright glossy 
green, basal lobes rounded, sinus broad or narrow, nerves 
five to seven strong beneath, both surfaces finely reticu- 
lated; petiole one-half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Flowers on slender pedicels, about half as long as the 
leaves. Ovary club-shaped, pubescent, six-ribbed. Perianth 
about one and a half inch long, curved almost in a semi- 
circle, pale yellow-brown, striped with dark red-brown; 
utricular base of the perianth globose, tube gradually 
enlarged from the base to the elongate ovate oblique limb, 
which is obtuse and yellow within, margins recurved 
Crown of stigma very short, of six small broadly ovate 
aes beneath which is the ring of small sessile anthers.— 
oe #, 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower ;-2, ovary; 3, transverse section of ditto :—all 
enlarged. 
