Descr. A long, slender, climbing, annual (?), slightly hairy in 
all the herbaceous portion. Zeaves petiolated, opposite or rarely 
alternate, ovate, rather obtuse, sometimes approaching to cor- 
date, sometimes subrotund, more or less coarsely crenato-serrate, 
penniveined, slightly reticulated. Peduncles terminal, slender, 
single-flowered. ower large, not much unlike that of Atropa 
Belladonna. Calyx with a hemispherical, sulcated tube, which 
is incorporated with the greater part of the ovary: the /imé con- 
sists of five, large, foliaceous, oblong-ovate, entire or nearly entire 
segments, which spread horizontally or are eventually reflexed, 
obscurely three-nerved. Corolla large, urceolato-globose, campa- 
nulate, the ¢wbe inflated: the /iméd of five, spreading, triangular 
segments ; the colour yellowish-green, veined with dark purple. 
Stamens quite included, short : filaments subulate, much dilated 
at the base: anther linear-oblong. Ovary, the lower half (ad- 
herent with the calyx) hemispherical, sulcated; the upper half 
depressed, but in the centre conical, and tapering into the short 
style: s¢zgmas three-lobed, lobes very large, oval, glandular, exter- 
nally glandulose. 
Fig. 1. Ovary and stamens :—magnified. 
