coloured, glabrous. Leaves of long shoots scattered, those of the much 
contracted short shoots densely clustered; petiole very variable in length, 
usually 1-3 in., but at times over 1} in. long; blade rounded in outline with 
a truncate or wide-cuneate base, shortly 3-5-lobed, {-1} in. long, 1-1} in. wide, 
lobes blunt and coarsely toothed, sparingly pubescent towards the base and 
margin, elsewhere glabrous, rarely uniformly softly hairy beneath. Racemes 
slender, somewhat pendulous, 3-4-flowered, including the short peduncle 
2-2 in. or occasionally 1 in. long ; bracts rather membranous, obovate-elliptic ; 
sometimes lobulate, glabrous or sparingly ciliolate, ;'; in. long, enveloping the 
base of the pedicel. Receptacle ellipsoid below, funnel-shaped above, +; in. long, 
quite glabrous. Sepals narrow-oblong, blunt, about + in. long, white tinged 
with rose near the base, in flower spreading, eventually recurved. Petals 
obovate-spathulate, ;!; in. long, nearly straight. Stamens far exserted ; fila- 
ments 2 in. long, beset with spreading hairs; anthers rounded. Style slightly 
longer than the stamens, 2-fid in the = ei sixth, beset with spreading hairs. 
Berry globose, about } in. wide, glabrous, dark-purple, crowned by the 
persistent calyx. 
Tan. 8849.—Fig. 1, basal portion of leaf; 2, flower; 3, section of flower ; 
4 and 5, anthers; 6, fruiting twig :—all enlarged except 6, which is of natural 
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