attending negative evidence it appears desirable, until 
further field observation has been made, to follow Mr. 
Guilfoyle in treating this striking plant as a well-marked 
variety of C. aristata. 
DescrIPTioN.—Shrub, dioecious, evergreen, climbing ; 
stem striate, sparingly puberulous. Leaves opposite, 3- 
foliolate ; petioles 13-3 in. long; petiolules $-14 in. long; 
leaflets ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, sharply caudate- 
acuminate with recurved tips, base cordate or truncate, 
2-4 in. long, $-13 in. wide, coarsely serrately toothed, 
glabrous, dull, 5-nerved from the base, outer nerves 
spreading, intermediate extending towards the leaf tip, 
united from the middle onwards with the upper spreading 
lateral branches of the midrib. Panicles axillary, many- 
flowered; rachis under 1 in. long, shortly closely hairy; 
bracts wide subulate with incurved edges, about 2 lin. long ; 
peduncles decussate 1-flowered, densely pilose, 2-bracteolate 
at the tip, 2-5 lin. long; pedicels 14-2 in. long, pilose. 
Male flowers: Sepals 4, valvate, white, lanceolate-ligulate, 
obtuse, base slightly narrowed, 3-1 in. long, 2-4 lin. wide, 
pubescent externally, glabrous within. Stamens many ; 
filaments salmon-red, the outer about } in. long, three times 
as long as the inner; anthers oblong to linear, the outer, 
without the appendage, about 1 lin. long, half as long as 
the inner; connective produced beyond the anther cells in 
a subulate tip nearly 1 lin. long. Rudimentary pistil 9. 
Femate flowers and fruit unknown, 
Fig. 1, flower-bud ; 2, an outer stamen ; 3, an inner stamen :—all enlarged, 
