Compilation
Cardiospermum clematideum

Stems slender, suffruticose, deeply sulcate, finely grey-downy. Petioles short, often scarcely any. Leaves biternate or the lateral divisions reduced so that they appear like pinnæ, the segments ovate, deeply inciso-pinnatifid, the colour a duller green and the texture firmer than in the others, and especially the lower surface always downy, with the main veins a little raised. Peduncles 3–4 in. long, usually much exceeding the leaves, with a pair of opposite, spirally decurved, firm tendrils near the apex, the forks of the umbel 3 or 4, each 2–6-flowered and 1 sometimes branched. Fully developed flowers nearly 1/4 in. long, the larger sepals equalling the white petals, the filaments slightly hairy and the glands oblong. Capsule distinctly stipitate, roundish in general outline, measuring 1–1 1/4 in. each way.