d 



^ 



, flexuose, clin 

 Leaves cordate 



bing by spiral filiform capillary ten-* 

 deeply indented at the base, lower 



ones often repandly pentangular with an open petiolar smus 

 or hollow, upper ones palmately five-lobed, lobes oblong, 

 outstretched, rounded, and sometimes broader upwards, two 

 lowermost eared at the base so as to lap over each other and 



petiolar sinus, when the leaf appears pelt 



repandly denticulate, 



each 



h 



tooth, and 



ed state often 



ncss. 



Peduncles set bet 



point at the end of 

 kly speckled with small callous 



a chalky white- 

 \ and the ten- 



the pet 



dril, shorter than the leaf, commonly in pairs, 

 ered; sometimes we find a third, but which w< 



fl 



come to p 



Flowers of a pinkish buff 



colour, 1-2 inches across. Anther ', an orange-coloured ob- 

 late balk formed by a narrow continuous line winding in 



round a 



qua I 



folds up 



knob 



The plants in our collections have produced 



and downwards, 

 point of the filament. 



none but bar- 



ha 



flowers, the 



In Jussi< 



der Cucitrb 



pe 



stamen only; hence we have 

 be dioecious, producing the fertile 



pistil 



plant 



system the genus makes a part of 



Gourd-trib 



an 



order 



f which the 



from imperfect definition and inconnexedly 



spec 



and their 



botanist an urg 



by a compe 





Bryonia quinqueloba is no where mentioned as a plant ever 

 known to have been in any european collection ; nor can we 

 say at what period it was introduced, Mr. Edwards received 

 the branch from which the drawing was made from Lady 

 Aylesford, by whom the plant was purchased, at the nur- 

 sery of Messrs, Whitley and Co. in the King's Road, Par- 

 son's Green. 



The Banksian Herbarium contains a spontaneous speci- 

 men, remitted by the late Mr. Masson from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Increased with ease by cuttings ; but the root soon ac- 

 quiring considerable bulk, small-sized garden-pots should 

 not be used for the plants. 



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a The calyx, i The stamen standing on the disk of the corolla. 





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