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acuminated, parted by obtusely cornered sinuses, side-ones 
divergent, middle one the largest: petiole about twice 
shorter, jointed at the base, usually bearing 4 small ovate 
glands, hollowed at the top: stipules caducous, upright, 
ovate, acuminated, veined, } of an inch long more or less, 
smooth, mucronate, slanting and uneven-sided at the base, 
floral ones reddish: tendrils simple, spiral, axillary. 2lowers 
in pendulous racemes at the ends of the branches, hypocra- 
teriformly stellate, of a rosy crimson colour, 4-5 inches in 
diameter, without scent: each raceme remotely many (9-13)- 
flowered, simple, having stipules in the place of leaves, 
and partially tendrils, 7-9 inches long; lower peduncles. 
two together, one above the other, upper ones single, about 
an inch long, round, spreading, with a joint not far below 
the calyx: involucres three-leafletted, at the joint below 
the flower, about even with the tube of the flower, caducous, 
leaflets subsessile, ovate, acuminated, veined, &c. in fine 
very like those of the stipules. Calyx (while closed clavately 
oblong, 5-cornered and deeply winged): ¢ube cylindrical, 
fleshy and firm, about 4 of the length of the limb, with a 
diameter of about half its own length, obsoletely 10-streaked, 
greenish below, with a slightly protuberant circle of 5 conti- 
guous bosses at the circumference of the bottom, dinted un- 
derneath; segments far asunder, thin, navicular or boat- 
shaped, narrow, transversely bidentate at the end, one tooth- 
let being the continuation of the outer cuticle, the other of 
the inner, with a broad thin ventricosely deepened wing at 
the keel. Petals of the corolla placed at the edge of the tube 
of the calyx, and 3 smaller'than its segments, lanceolate, 
flattish. Crown radiated, triple, several times shorter than 
the calyx; outer one of two ranks, with alternating out- 
Spread radii placed at the foot of the petals, outer rank of 
filiform fleshy blunted rays, particoloured purple and white, 
inner of small stumps resembling tubercles; ner one situ- 
ated within and a little below the mouth of the tube of 
the calyx, of the lining of which it is the continuation, 
of only a single row, convergent, rays membranous, filiform, 
greenish white, clavately capitate, blood-red at the top. 
Operculum (or lid of the nectary) greenish white, double; 
the upper one placed on the outside of the lower one a little 
behind its margin, upright, cylindrical, of nearly the shape 
and dimensions of the cavity of the tube of the calyx, 
membranous, plaitedly streaked, dentately cleft, teeth con- 
vergent, glandularly edged ane obliquely truncated inwards, 
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