length of 8 to 9 in, including’ the petiole, and are about 
7 in. broad. At Kew the plant flowers in autumn, while 
the fruits ripen in the following spring. The absence of 
gland-tipped hairs from the inflorescence, apart from those 
on the pedicels, is peculiar. Three kinds of hairs are 
found on C. adenopodus ; subulate, acute, multiseptate hairs 
filled with red cell-sap; linear, gland-tipped hairs; and 
bodies which Mr. Sprague terms “ pearl-olands.” These 
last are met with on the inflorescence, usually near the base 
of the pedicels, on the under surface of young leaves, and 
on the outside of the stipules, near the base. These have 
been observed in numerous species of Ampelidaceae, and 
they seem, at least in certain cases, to serve as “ food- 
bodies” for ants. 
Drscriprion.—Herb, climbing by means of tendrils. 
foot tuberous. Stem terete, hirsute like the petioles, 
petiolules and tendrils with numerous many-septate, mixed 
- with rather fewer gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate, 
petioles almost cylindric, 14-24 in. long; petiolules 2~7 lin. 
long, the median the longest; leaflets ovate, abruptly 
acuminate, coarsely serrate, the lateral obliquely rounded, 
the central obtuse at the base, 2-4 in. long, 14-28 in. wide, 
setulose on both surfaces, green with sunken nerves above, 
red with prominent nerves beneath; stipules falcate- 
lanceolate, acute, reaching 5 lin. in length. Panicles leaf 
opposed, flattened, triangular in outline, about 4 in. long,2 
pedunculate, the peduncles 13 in. long, hirsute with 
spreading hairs, the rachis red or greenish, the branchlets 
alternate; bracts inconspicuous; pedicels recurved after 
flowering, ‘about 2 lin. long, clothed with conspicuous 
gland-tipped hairs mixed with short inconspicuous non- 
glandular ones; buds about 1§ lin. long, with pilose tips. 
Calyx cup-shaped, only 3 lin. long, puberulous below. 
Petals oblong, much deflexed, 2 lin. long, the tips hooded 
and pilose, elsewhere glabrous. Stamens at first adpressed 
to the style; filaments about 13 lin. long, anthers wide- 
elliptic. Ovary distinctly lobed ; style about 1 lin. long. 
Berry globose, about 2 in. across. 
Fig. 1, bud; 2, a petal; 3, stamens and pistil; 4, pistil; 5, fruit; 6, seed ;— 
all enlarged. : : 
