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Updated: May 12, 2025
The leaves of this climber are broad, roundish, and smooth. The juice of its stalk is applied to heal excoriations of the tongue. A climbing plant with leaves resembling the box, and a small flosculous blossom. It is used as a medicine in fevers. It is burned to preserve children newly born from the influence of evil spirits. A shrub with monopetalous, stillated, purple flowers, growing in tufts.
In the family of the composites we find a group of genera with two forms of florets on each flower-head. The hermaphrodite ones are tubular with 5, or rarely 4, equal teeth, and occupy the center of the head. These are often called the flosculous florets or disk-florets. Those of the circumference are ligulate and ordinarily unisexual, without stamens.
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