slender, drooping branches and branchlets. Leaves about four 
inches long, very narrowly cuneiform, gradually narrowed 
from above the middle into a petiole, trifurcately cleft 
into narrowly lanceolate acuminate lobes one to one and 
a half inches long, of which the median is nearly straight, 
the lateral rather shorter, divergent and_ sub-falcate, 
dark green above, paler beneath, with a stout median 
costa. lowers small, white, in short, oblong, peduncled, 
axillary, very many-flowered, one to one and a half inch 
long, pale greenish-yellow racemes ; peduncle and rhachis 
filiform; pedicels capillary, one-third to one half of an 
inch long. Pertanth (unopened) one-sixth of an inch long; 
tube fusiform, straight; segments reflexed from the base, 
staminiferous portion elliptic, with an incurved cusp. — 
Anthers sessile, shortly oblong. Hypogynous disk minute, — 
semi-annular. Ovary erect, on an erect, slightly curved 
stipes, nearly half as long as the perianth-segments, 
obliquely globose ; style fusiform, stout, contracted beneath 
the broadly conical stigma.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, unexpanded, and 2, expanded flower; 3, hypogynous di-k and pistil 
on its stipes :—A/l enlarged. | 
