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calycis exserta ; coronae filamentis brevibus composita ; effigurationes 
receptaculi 5, basi eius insertae, minutae, lingulatae, sepalis oppositae ; 
stamina 5, inclusa, filamentis parte majore in tubum connatis ; antherae 
oblongae, graciles, ad apice connatis ; rudimentum ovarii in tubum 
filamentorum. Flores $ ignoti. 
Perennial, glabrous plant, climbing with tendrils. Tuber large, 
napiform, 2 ft. in diameter and 1 ft. high. Stems many, branched, herba- 
ceous, green, mottled with pale red, up to 5 ft. long, ^ 3 lines in diameter, 
internodes/ i 2 in. long. Leaves alternate, petiolate ; petiole 3-4 lin. 
long, sulcate; lamina triangular in outline d: 1J i R * long, digitately divided 
nearly to the base into 5 lobes, glabrous, dark-green, with prominent 
midrib and thickened, reddish margin ; middle lobe longest, pinnatifid 
with 2 pairs of bluntish segments and roundish angles, the lateral lobes 
have one pair of segments and the basal ones are undivided ; two big flat 
glands at base of lamina on the upper side, one gland between each lobe 
on the underside, smaller ones in the angles of each segment of lobes. 
