flowers are sometimes irregular, as if composed of two or three 
grown together. 
Dzscr. A scandent free. Leaves or petioles a foot long, with 
a short stipular sheath at the base. eafle/s seven to nine, radi- 
ating from the apex of the petiole, petiolulate, six to ten inches 
long, obovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire and 
glabrous. Flowers in irregularly branched compound wméels ; 
partial umbel of about eight rays, the pedicels as well as the pe- 
duncles or branches of the umbel are excessively stout and jointed 
to one another, but the flowers are not jointed on the pedicels. — 
Flowers three-quarters to one and a quarter inch across, present- 
ing, after the falling away of the calyptra, a broad, flat, obscurely 
lobed disc, depressed in the centre, and then marked with a lon- 
gitudinal line, which is usually forked at both ends : the stigmatic — 
surface follows this line and its branches ; sometimes the line — 
consists of three rays. On a transverse section of the ovary in-— 
numerable slits are seen, radiating from a pulpy green placental — 
mass, of the same form as that of the stigmatic surfaces. Each — 
of these slits represents a cell, with one pendulous compressed a 
ovule. Hook. fil. : 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—doth magnified. 
