oval, obtuse, here and there glanduloso-dentate, green 
above, purplish beneath. Petioles slender, bearing two or 
three elongated, dark-purple glands: from the axil a sim- 
ple tendril arises, and from each side, at the base, a large 
semicordate, obtuse stzpule, of the same colour and texture 
as the leaves. Calyx on both sides crimson-red, the seg- 
ments ten, uniform, narrow-oblong, at first horizontal, 
afterwards reflexed, whitish at their base; they are com- 
bined below into a short tube, swollen at the base: at the 
mouth of this tube is a filamentous crown of several series 
of nearly erect, dark-purple filaments, the outer ones paler 
at the extremity, within this is another and smaller circle 
of white filaments, united for the greater part of their 
length into a conical tube. Column much elongated. 
Stigmas club-shaped. 
