Deser.—A tall climber; stem slender, clothed with 
leafing and flowering branches, quite glabrous. Branch- 
lets slender, terete; bark lenticillate, red-brown; of 
flowering branchlets dull olive-green, contrasting with the 
rose-coloured petioles. Leaves three to four inches long, 
and often as broad, long-petioled, broadly ovate or ovate- 
oblong, acute, setulosely closely serrulate, membranous. 
undulate, bright green, base cuneate rounded or cordate ; 
nerves six to nine pairs, arched ; petiole one to one and a 
half inches long, slender, rose-colrd. Flowers three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter, subglobose, in usually 
three-flowered shortly peduncled axillary cymes, pendulous, 
faintly tinged with green; pedicels half to three-quarters 
of an inch long, very slender ; bracts at their bases minute, 
setaceous. Sepals about half as long as the petals, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, green, deciduous. Petals orbicular, very 
concave, incurved. Stamens very many in a whorl round 
the ovary, included; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers 
oblong. Ovary sessile, oblong, terete, very many-celled ; 
cells small, surrounding a broad axis. Style short, stout, 
crowned with about twenty radiating narrowly clavate 
stigmas. Fruit a many-seeded, oblong, fleshy, yellow- 
green berry, nearly an inch long—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of margin of leaf; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary; 5, transverse 
section of do. :—All enlarged, ; 
