with the base of the ovary), this resembles the Ampelopsis 

 section of the genus, but the tendrils are wholly different 



Descr. A perfectly glabrous, gigantic, climbing Vine 

 Trunk, at the base, eighteen inches broad by one to one and 

 a half inch in thickness, quite flattened, dark brown, swelling 

 at the nodes, which occur at intervals; wood soft and spoi 

 with large, open proper vessels. BrancKUfts and shoots quite 

 terete. Leaves large, quinately digitate ; petioles three inches 

 to a span long, terete; leaflets a span long, petiolulate, ob- 

 long-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acuminate, with an obtnse 

 point, rather distantly serrate, base rounded or obtuse sub- 

 stance rather leathery, shining above with divergent veins 

 lendnls long, stout, and simple. Cymes shorter than the 

 petiole^ ; peduncles stout; branches subcorymbose, divaricat- 

 mg. Flowers green, umbellulate ; pedicels stout, one-eighth 

 to a quarter of an inch long. Calyx-limb entire Corolla 

 urceolate m bud the four petals soon separating, spreading 

 and deciduous. Stamens very minute and imperfect in the 

 cultivated plant, whence the species is probably Bubdicecioua 

 Vmry conical, with a sessile four-lobed radiating stigma, 

 Fruit glabrous, as large as the thumb-nail, and two s.,,1,,1.— 

 J. U. II. 



Fig. 1. Flower, — magnified. 



