Descr. Plant very soft with fine down, twining. Leaves 
opposite, cordato-acuminate, with a deep and acute sinus, 
longer than the petioles. Peduncles axillary, bearing wm- 
bels of large, handsome, downy flowers. Calyx in five deep, 
acuminated segments. Corolla more than an inch across, 
between rotate and campanulate, with five triangular seg- 
ments, and a small tooth beween them, cream-coloured, 
prettily dotted and streaked with purple within. Column 
of fructification short. Leaflets of the staminal crown large, 
ovato-globose, gibbose, fleshy, pale-green, the apex ob- 
liquely beaked, depressed on the top. Style short: Stigma 
bifid. 
Fig. 1. Column of Fructification. 2. The same with the leaflet removed: 
—magnified. 
