simple in the male plant, branched in the female, rounded, 
green ; in the full-grown plant, below, thickly clothed with 
succulent longitudinal hairs, which are tipped with a gland. 
Leaves alternate, the younger ones thin, pellucid, bright 
green, generally three-lobed, upwards gradually more nume- 
rous ; older ones remote, a span in breadth, nearly orbicular 
in their circumscription, deeply cordate, five to seven-lobed, 
the lobes entire, often deflexed, wavy on the surface and 
margin, dark green aboye, paler beneath, hairy on both 
sides ; the nerves, according to the number of lobes, are 
three, seven, or nine, pale, connected by veins which, in 
themselves, are reticulated, prominent beneath. Petiole 
about as long as the leaf, rounded, glanduloso-pilose, thick- 
ened below. 
Mate Prant. Racemes axillary, solitary or two together, 
drooping, about as long as the petiole, compound, branches 
an inch or more long, clothed with glandular hairs, slender, 
having at the base small deciduous bractee. Cal. glabrous, 
consisting of six leaves or sepals, which are nearly equal, 
arranged in a double series, oval, acute. Cor. pale green, 
of six free petals, oblong, with involute margins and 
recurved apices, arranged round a central orbicular disc or 
gland, in asingle series. Stam. six, opposite to the petals. 
Filaments thick, shorter than the petals, which embrace their 
somewhat attenuated bases. Anthers terminal, truncated, 
four-celled, the cells opening internally and filled with the 
yellow pollen, consisting of linear-oblong grains. In the 
Femate Pranr, the racemes are axillary, solitary, simple, 
patent, shorter than those of the male. Pedicels with 
caducous, minute bractee. Sepals six, in two series, three 
inferior smaller, ovate, acute, subpatent, plane, glabrous. 
Petals six, rarely eight, free, shorter than the germens, 
recurved at the extremity, green, glabrous. Pistzs three, 
free, of which two are generally abortive, ovate, acuminate, 
glanduloso-pilose, containing one ovule: Style almost 
none: Stigma with several spreading points. Fruit dru- 
paceous or berried, about the size of a hazel nut, densely 
clothed with long, spreading hairs, which at the extremity 
are tipped with a black gland, oblongo-globose. Seed 
subreniform, clothed with a thin black shell, transversely 
striated. Boser’s MSS. : 
Coxumro of the Materia Medica, is the root of a plant 
which appears to have been long known in some parts of 
the East Indies, but whose native country and history have 
been, till very lately, involved in obscurity. Some have 
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