‘still nearer to hederacea, where the leaves are likewise 
peltate, but larger, and more shallowly divided. 
Native of the West Indies; whence it was introduced 
in 1778. A plant flowered in September in the hothouse at 
the Chelsea Nursery belonging to Messrs. Colville, in the 
King’s Road; where the drawing was taken. 
The species has been enumerated in Mr. Pursh’s Flora of 
North America as a native of Virginia and Georgia; but the 
prototype sample in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, consists of a 
single detached leaf, procured from some other collection, 
and does not we suspect even belong to the species. 
A smooth twining shrub: stem coated below with a pale 
corky rind, above and at the branches dark red and thickly 
besprinkled with minute yellow dots, scarcely perceptible 
without a glass. Leaves peltate, subcoriaceous, of a dark 
shining green, 3-nerved, deflexed towards the edge, and 
bordered with a fine dark line, upper ones palmately 3- 
Jobed, lobes wide asunder, Separated almost to the petiole 
jong-lanceolate, the middle one rather the largest, 3-4- 
inches in length; dower ones smaller, more shallowly di- 
vided, lobes ovate taper-pointed; petiole smooth, about an 
inch long, with two small dark red opposite lateral cup- 
ped glands; stipules subulate, flat, upright; tendrils axil- 
lary, sometimes one between the two. flowers. Flowers 
without either involucre or bracte, or corolla, whitish green, 
scentless, in axillary pairs, nodding, almost 2 inches in 
diameter: peduncle dark red, filiform, nearly twice shorter 
and slenderer than the petiole, jointed a little above the 
middle and thickest beyond the joint. Calyz stellately five- 
parted, slightly dinted underneath the disk with a circle of 
ten shallow nodules: segments wide asunder, recurvedly 
spreading, linear and tapered from a broad base, rather sub- 
stantial, bluntish. Crown of two rows, twice shorter than 
the limb of the calyx; outer rays numerous greenish yellow 
and slightly marked with dark broken linear stains, filiform, 
obtuse; zmner ones alternate with the outer, capillary, only 
as long as the lid of the nectary, dark purple mottled with 
white, obtuse: lid (of the nectary) plaited, mottled 
purple; nectary simple, flat, inner wall short upright thick 
frosted and stained with black at the edge. Pistil even 
with the calyx: shafé round, rather taller than the crown 
pale, spotted with small dark broken lines: filaments ligulate, 
pale, longer than the oblong green anthers. Germen ellip- 
tical, smooth green: styles clavate, green, longer than the 
germen; stigmas subglobularly convex, green. # 
