

and prefer the well known denomination to that less known. 



altho' of better taste. 



The plant is singular as well as beautiful 

 undulate retroverted ascending' segments of i 



The 



kened by Lin 



£> 



O 



are 



to so 



flames ; the style points 



horizontally, and appears as if broken at the bas 



on its side ; the roof is ; 

 flattened tuber, bent d 



fleshy brittle elongated somewhat 



on 



each 



d 



ft 



th 



p 



middle into a 



d 



f 



fr 



the 



pper part of 



centre of which the stem rises ; in old plants a catenation 



f 



foi 



a structure of 



singular app 



Monsieur Desfontaines recommends the taking up of 



lys, and laying them by in the hoth 



bef< 



planted 



th 



The stem is from 



? spring. 



six to ten feet high, weak and supported by the hold 

 that the leaves take of the neighbouring plants, by means of 



from their point 



a spiral tendril growing 

 varies from two to three inches in depth, 

 reputation of being poisonous. Its pL.x, 

 svstem is amono; the Lilia. near to Eire 



Th 



corolla 



The pi 



ural 

 and 



Uvu 





Native of the East Indies. Introduced by Mr. Bentinck, 

 afterwards Lord Portland, in 1690. We suspect the plant 

 from Guinea is a distinct species. 



Requires to be kept, while growing, constantly in the 

 tan-pit of the hothouse, where it flowers late in the sum- 

 mer. 



Multiplied by parting the tubers. 



The drawing was made from a plant which flowered this 

 autumn in Mr. Vere's collection at Kensington Gore. 





a A segment of the corolla, with u stamen attached. 



the corolla is removed* 



The pistil, arte* 







