tire. Of Linnaeus's plant we can only judge from what lie 

 himself has told us, and from the figure in Dr. Smith's 

 " Spieilegium," which we should have taken for our plant, 

 but for the indented ray, no simple ovate leaf being shown 

 there. Of the species described and figured by Sloane, a 

 specimen sent from Jamaica by Dr. Houston, is deposited 

 in the Banksian Herbarium, as the Linnean reptans; so are 

 two others from the same quarter presented by Mr. Shake- 

 speare, but these in truth belong to the present species, 

 imd are distinct from both the preceding. 



Our pi; 



ago, and 

 itself b 



floweret 



int had been raised fro 



attained the height 

 twining round its prop 



terminating the brand 



ied about 



of 



eight 



feet 



Corymbs 

 :s that 



ee y 



poor 



a 



issue 



ft 



f the upper leaves : flowers of a golden \ 



the 



Ll'k- 



by brown half-extruded anthers : peduncles 



hove the 



Stem about 



ness of a large wheaten straw near the base, 

 of the leaves ahout 2 inches long 



Upper leafl 

 Having seen only one 



living specimen, and that under very artificial culture, we 

 have not ventured to call it volubilis, although apparently 



/\ native of Jamaica, and perhaps of 



es. "Messrs. Colville, to whom 



name. 



the fittest 



other parts of the West Ind 



its introduction is due, have no recollection of 



ley obtained the seed from wh 



be kep 



bed of 



raised. Requires 

 where it flowers 



about D 

 Messrs. 



Col 



The drawing was made at the nursery of 

 Kinsr's Road, Chelsea. 



a The calyx and chaffy receptacle, b A sterile floret of the ray. e A 

 fertile floret of the disk seated between the two barbed awns of the ger* 



men 



d. The same magnified* 











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