base, lobed, hispid on both sides, dark green above, paler 
and becoming purplish below, especially on the ribs, which 
are strong and prominent ; lobes acute, contorted, serrulato- 
denticulate, and in the interstices between the teeth crenu- 
late and ciliated ; petioles (two to three inches long) nearly 
round, slightly flattened above, erect ; stipules opposite, 
intrafoliaceous, ovate, acute, involute, herbaceous, rigid, 
marcescent. Cymes axillary, on peduncles as long as the 
petioles, dichotomous, always bearing a flower in the cleft, 
fully developed only after the leaf, from the axil of which it 
springs, drops off; branches slightly hairy, spreading like a 
fan. Male flowers (there are no others on the only two 
specimens which have yet flowered with us) tetrapetalous, 
nearly white, very large (two inches across); petals very 
unequal, the larger rotundato-ovate, the smaller spathulato- 
linear. Stamens numerous, connected only at the base: 
Jilament slender : connective thick, and clavate: anther-cells 
small, on the outside of the connective, and towards its 
edges.” Graham. 
