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which is also found in other parts of South America, anq 
which may henceforth be called Triumfetta petiolaris. 
The essential characteristics of this are, its minute, 
cuneate, or 3-toothed petals, which place it upon the 
extreme limit of the ‘section to which it belongs, and next 
to the apetalous species; its roundish, cordate, soft, 3-lobed 
leaves, and 3-locular ovarium, are its other essential 
features. 
Native of the East Indies. Our drawing was made 
in the garden of Henry Bellenden Ker, Esq., by whom 
it was cultivated in the stove. It formed a suffrutescent 
stem, but not having been preserved, it is uncertain 
whether it is shrubby or herbaceous. 
Stem erect, terete, pubescent, and roughish, with stel- 
lated hairs. Leaves roundish-cordate, obsoletely 3-lobed, 
serrated, 3-5-nerved at the base, downy, with stellate hairs 
on each side; the upper leaves ovate-oblong, undivided. 
Flowers arranged in a terminal compound raceme, with 
subulate hairy bractez. Sepals 5, linear, pilose, yellow, 
cucullate at the end, and green, with an appendage ex- 
ternally. Petals yellow, only half the length of the sepals, 
cuneate, frequently 3-toothed, slightly hairy at the base 
externally. Filaments wrinkled across. Ovariwm_ with 
uncinate, not jointed, simple hairs, 3-celled. Style filiform, 
‘smooth; stigma slightly 3-pointed. ah 
