late Dr. Anderson about eight years ago, and flowered for 
the first time in November 1872. | 
Duscr. A lofty climber, perfectly glabrous everywhere. 
Stem very slender, copiously branched ; branches cylindric, 
pendulous. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate, petiole very short, 
thick ; leaflets two to three inches long, elliptic-ovate or 
oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or apiculate, quite entire, 
very fleshy, one-tenth of an inch in thickness, bright green, 
and obscurely 3-nerved above, channelled down the middle, 
paler and reticulated beneath; petiolules about as long as 
the petiole. Zendrils quite simple. Panicles slender, axillary 
and terminal, pendulous, many-flowered, greenish-yellow. 
lowers dicecious, shortly pedicelled, ebracteolate, one-third of 
an inch in diameter, very pale straw-coloured. Sepals ovate- 
oblong, acuminate, half as large as the rotate corolla, whose 
segments are elliptic-ovate and apiculate. Stamens small, 
recurved; anthers small, adnate, l-celled. “ Ovary club- 
shaped, 1-celled, many-ovuled ; ovules parietal ; styles three 
to four, short, conic, stigmas semilunar.”— Wall. “Fruit two 
inches long, subcylindric, obtusely 3-gonous, smooth, nar- 
rowed at the base into the pedicel. ‘Seeds compressed ; nucleus 
obovate ; testa black, muricate ; wing oblong, obtuse, hyaline. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, the same, 
4, ripe fruit:—natural size ; 5, ripe se 
Figs. 4—7 are taken from Herbariu 
laid open; 3, stamen:—all magnified ; 
ed:—natural size ; 6, seed :—magnified. 
m specimens. 
