the warmer south-western districts of the United 

 Kingdom. 



Description.— Shrub, stems and branches long, often 

 intricately interlaced; twigs slender, stiff, striate, gla- 

 brous. Leaves in full-grown plants usually reduced to 

 petioles, rarely furnished with 3 minute long-petioluled 

 ovate or triangular leaflets ; in young plants the leaves 

 often well developed ; petioles slender, f-4 in. long. 

 Flowers dioecious, in fascicles of 2-5, rarely solitary, in 

 the leaf-axils, greenish-white, f-lj in. across ; peduncles 

 perulate at the base, 2-bracteolate at the apex, rather 

 densely hairy throughout. Female flowers: Sepals 4, 

 lanceolate, acute, about f in. long, silky outside. Stamt- 

 nodes few, their filaments much flattened; anthers 

 oblong-linear, sterile. Pistils numerous. Ocary pilose. 

 Achenes ovoid, silky. Male flowers : Anthers, according 

 to Cheese man, linear. 



Fi£. 1, tip of leafless petiole; 2, bracteoles ; 3, sepal; 4, staminode ; 

 5, carpal :— M enlarge.!. l 



