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BRYONIA quinqueloba. Mas. 

 Five-fingered Cape Bryony. Barren-flowered 





MOKCECIA MONADELP1IIA. 



BRYONIA. Monoica v. rar6 dioiea. (Co/. 1-pbyllus, campanu- 

 las, 5-dentatns: denticnlis subulatis. Cor. 5-partita, campanulafe, 

 calyci adnata : laciniis ovatis. Gen. pi. 663.) Wasc. Fit. 3, brevisnma, 

 infra coalita, 2 diandra, 1 monandnun. F<r\t. Stylus 3-fidos; gtig- 

 mata 3, emargimla. Dacca (infera) parva subglohnrc la-vis, l-(3- Gartn.) 

 loc, polvsperma; sem. pauca, (non plma srnis, cellulia propriis oonclusa. 

 Gartn.) Radix tube rosa. Caulis lierbaceus, scamlais, J/cruosits. PoHm 

 allema, cirrhh aii/laribus iwtructa, punctis ca/los/s ayersu. F/ures 

 axillares, pedunculis l-rnultijioris. Jussicu. gen. 3[)4. 



B. quinqueloba y dioica ; foliis cordatis siuu baseos profundo, superiorJbus 

 palniato-quinquelobatis, lobis oblongis oblusissimis distantibus, supernA 

 repando-clentatis, dentibus niucronalis. 

 Bryonia quinqueloba, Thtntb. prod. 13. JVil/d. sp. pi. 4. 622. 



Radix perennis, magna, oblonga, communiterjusiformis, carnosa. Caules 

 herbacei, subangidati, ramosi per cirrhos scandentes* Folia 7-ncrvia, dis- 

 tautia, inferiora scepe cordato-quinquangidaria : lobi superiorum subwquales 

 intervallis latis divergentes, extimi 2 divaricati alque postice sic auric ulati ut 

 conniveant inibricalim sinumque baseos integrent, cum folium dicerctis pelta- 

 tum : circuviscriptio cunctis snbrotunda ; diameter vix urupunn tribus unciii 

 latior ; omnia conspersa punctis callosis : petiolus brcvis, jiexus. Cirrhi 

 spirales, capillares, solitarii, petiolis laterales. Pedunculi collocati inter 

 cirri hum et petio/um, breviores folio, scepius gemini, alter \-jtorus, alter pau- 

 ciflorus, nunc alius ejfeetus (numne foemiveus abortiensf). Masc. Flos 

 oc/irotettcus, 1-2 uncias transversus. Cor. rotato-campanulala,tenera,lanuginc 

 molli brevissima pruinata, picta venis, laciniis trinervibus. Stamen breve : 

 fiL crassum ; anthem capitata, erecta, oblato-globosa, aurantiaca } comtans 

 linea sursiim et deorsumjlexa in plicas arctas. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope ; till now, only known 

 by its specific phrase in Thunbergs Prodromus. In such of 



our gardens into which it has as yet found its way, the 



plant has been taken for Bryonia gram/is, an East Indian 

 species; and in consequence treated too tenderly. It will 

 do in the conservatory and greenhouse; but thrives most 

 at the foot of a wall with a southern aspect, where its 



stems will extend 



of 



feet, and produce larger and higher coloured bloom. 



Root large, fleshy, tapered, nearly as in the common 

 Bryony of our own hedges. Stem herbaceous, slender, 



