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12. MINIMA. DWARF. 



Folds ?n'tidis trilobis, medio angustq longiori, qua-ndoqua 



aurith, fructu baccato minor i nitido. Browuc, p. lii 



Leaves smooth ; lobes lanceolate, quite entire, the muldle.one more produced; 

 petioles biglandular; stem even, suberous at bottom. 



Stem twining, simple, becoming .corky at the base with age, round, smooth. 

 Leaves sub-peltate, sub-cordate ; lateral lobes almost horizontal ; all acute, nerved, 

 smooth on both sides; petioles short, round, reflex, smooth; glands two, opposite, 

 small, sessile, concave, brown, in. the middle of the petioles. Stipules two, opposite, 

 awl-shaped, by the side of the petioles ; tendrils long, between the petioles. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, solitary, longer than the petioles,' loose, one-flowered; flowers small, 

 whitish ; calyx none, except the flattish base of the corolla; petals five, lanceolate, 

 reflex at the tips; nectary fourfold ; inmost a membranaceous rim, entire, brown at 

 the base of the column; inner one-leafed, plaited, crenate, dusky purple ; outer 

 ciliated, with capillary erect hairs, black, with yellow tips ; outmost with cilias twice 

 as long as the others, reflex, very dark purple, yellow from the middle to the tip; 

 column longer than the corolla ; germ roundish; berry small, blue, egg-shaped. It 

 is nearly allied to the following species, suberosa, but ditfers in the lobes of the leaves 

 being narrow and divaricated ; the stem herbaceous, becoming like cork when ld, and 

 -the flowers smaller. Sih 



13. SUBEROSA. GNAWED. 



Leaves sub-peltate ; lobes ovate-entire ; petioles biglandular ; stem suberose. 



This rises to the height of twenty feet by a weak stalk, which, as it grows old, has a 

 iJiick fungous bark like that of the cork-tree, which cracks and splits. The -smaller 

 branches are covered with a smooth bark ; leaves smooth, on very short petioles ; the 

 middle lobe much longer than the lateral ones, so that the whole leaf is halbert-shaped. 

 The flowers are small, of a greenish yellow colour ; fruit egg-shaped, dark purple 

 when ripe. 



14. INCARNATA. TLESH-COLOURED. 



Toliis subhastatis, petiolis biglandulis, stylo longiori, fructu subkir- 

 suto rubdlo. Browne, p. 3^8. P. 9. 



Leaves serrate, equal; petioles biglandular. 



Root perennial ; stalks annual, slender, rising four or five feet high. At each joint 

 one leaf, on a short footstalk, having mostly three oblong lobes, but the two sides are 

 sometimes divided part of their length into two narrow segments, and thus becoming 

 five-lobed ; they are thin, of a light green, and slightly serrate. The flowers are pro- 

 duced from the joints of the stalk, at the footstalks of the leaves, on long slender pe- 

 duncles, in succession as the stalks advance in height. Calycine leaflets oblong, blunt, 

 pale-green ; petals white, with a double circle of purple rays, the rays of the lower 

 circle longest, the flowers have an agreeable scent, but are of short duration. Fruit as 

 large as a middling apple, changing to a pale orange colour when ripe, inclosing many 

 oblong, rough, seeds, lying in a sweetish pulp. 



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