high, erect, branched, terete, smooth. Leaves three to 
nine inches broad, palmately 5—7-cleft to or below the 
middle, membranous, bright green; lobes ovate or lanceo- 
late, acute, coarsely serrate, base truncate; petiole 
slender, longer than the blade. Racemes three to six 
inches long, shortly peduncled, erect, many-fld., length- 
ening in fruit often to a foot; bracts linear or spathulate, 
persistent, lower sometimes foliaceous; pedicels half an 
inch long, slender. Flowers erecto-patent. Calyw-tube 
turbinate, glandular ; limb a third of an inch diam. ; lobes 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, golden yellow, with green 
tips and red bases, but probably variable in colour. Petals 
minute, spathulate. Stamens as long as the petals. 
Anthers didymous. Styles slender. Berries erect, globose, 
black, glandular.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel, and bract; 2, gland; 3, flower with two sepals 
removed; all enlarged ; 4, portion of fruiting raceme of the nat. size. 
