seeds were regeived in 1837, and the plants flowered in 
July, 1839. 
Descr. Stems long, climbing, cirrhiferous, glaucous. 
Leaves almost entirely sessile, three to five inches long, 
cuneate, deeply palmato-trifid, obscurely serrated, oblong, 
dark-green above, very glaucous; there are a few sessile 
peziziform glands in the sinuses, and a large one of the 
same character on each side the very short petiole. Sti- 
pules large, ovate, serrated, glaucous on both sides, un- 
equally cordate at the base. Peduncles one-flowered, half 
as long as the leaves, bearing a little below the flower a 
large, three-leaved involucre, the leaves ovate, cordate at 
the base, and a good deal resembling the stipules. Calyx- 
tube very short : the limb of five oblong segments. Petals 
white. Filamentous crown with the outer ray nearly as 
long as the petals, blue ; variegated below with white and 
darker blue ; intermediate one very short, and deep blue, 
inner-one red-purple, erect. Staminal tube yellow, spotted 
with orange. 
