nectar i/e ram in fundo urceoli operiens. Bacca viridi-lutescens, albo-punctata p 

 mole fy fere forma ovi gallinacei, glabra lanuginosave, obsolete $f rotundate 

 trigona. Semina compresso-cordata. 



One of the oldest stove-plants in our collections, having 

 been introduced from the West Indies by Mr. Bentinck, af- 

 terwards Lord Portland, in 1(>90. It has been found wild 

 by Plumier and Jacquin in the Island of Martinique, grow- 

 ing only in the closest groves and thickets, where it winds 

 itself round the trees for support. According to Swartz 

 and Miller, it is known among the english colonists in the 



Indies by the name of " the Water-Lemon :" J 

 and Browne say by that of "the Honeysuckle;" the latter 

 attributing the former appellation to maliformis, a closely 

 allied species. Among the french colonists the fruit is in- 

 cluded in the denomination of " Pommes de Lianes." This 

 is nearly of the form and size of a smallish Lemon, yellow 

 spotted with white, having a soft leathery rind, enclosing 

 a mass of separate brown flattish cordate cohesive seeds, 

 each coated by a thick pulpy membrane constituting the 

 esculent portion of the fruit, much as the case is with the 

 Pomegranate. The pulp is watery and sweetish, of a 

 pleasant taste, for the sake of which the fruit is eaten, as 

 well as medicinally in fevers. When the rind is broken at 

 the top, the eatable contents are obtained at once by a 

 slight compression. The flowers are both fragrant and 

 beautiful ; the young foliage is of a bright tender green, 

 gradually darkening till nearly black, in which it re- 

 sembles, as well as slightly in shape, that of the Laurel. 

 The way to grow the present, and indeed all the tropical 

 Climbers, is to plant them in a border of earth formed round 

 the inside of the bark-bed of the stove, and parted off from 

 the tan by thick boarding down to the bottom of the bed : 

 the whole to be backed by trellis-work for them to climb 

 on. In this way they thrive in great luxuriance, and are 

 made to form a bower, some part or other of which is in 

 bloom nearly the year through. Propagated without diffi- 

 culty by layers and cuttings. Our drawing was made at the 

 Comtesse de Vandes's, Bayswater. 



a A. ray of the outer circle of the crown, b One of the inner. 



