Branches thornless, smooth, weak, filiform, reddened 
at one side. Leaves erect, twice the length of the inter- 
nodes or intervals; stipules linear, distinct from the petiole, 
quickly deciduous, scantily glandular at the edge, fringed 
with simple jointless hairs; petioles naked, or now and then 
furred, thornless; leaflets 1-5, flat, oblong-lanceolate, ob- 
tuse, generally undulate, simply serrate, quite smooth on 
both sides, except at the base of the midrib, where they are 
thickly furred: lateral ones sessile, a little slanted at the 
base; terminal one pedicled. Flowers nodding, terminal by 
3-5-flowered umbels, whitish, diffusing a mild but exceed- 
ingly grateful fragrance; bractes very small, withering rapidly 
and falling off; peduncles quite smooth, very slender, but 
little thickened towards the calyx; tube of the calyx smooth, 
depressedly globular, green on one side, reddened on the 
other, leaflets ovate pointedly tipped, all simple, smooth 
on the outside, thickly tomentose on the inside, twice — 
shorter than the petals; petals emarginate, entire, outer a 
little recurved; the stamens and the apex of the receptacle 
of the petals grow out into petals and form the double 
flower; germens many, one-styled, one side (the inner) 
flat, nearly smooth, the other conyex and very densely 
furred with long simple hairs, ovwlwmn appended by the 
inner side, with one only conspicuous point of annexation; 
styles free, close-haired, thickened upward, protruding but 
little beyond the tube: stigma flat, thickened. 
We are obliged to Mr. Lindley for the excellent descrip- 
tion, of which the above is the english version. 
