angular, flexuose, climbing by spiral filiform capillary U 

 drils. Leaves cordate, deeply indented at the base, lou 

 ones often repandly pentangular with an open petiolar sin 

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

 outstretched, rounded, and sometimes broader upwards, /; 

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



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petiolar sinus, when the leaf appears pelt 



point at the end of 



each small tooth, and thickly speckled with small callous 

 dots which in a dried state often assume a chalky white- 

 ness. Peduncles set between the petiole and the ten- 

 dril, shorter than the leaf, commonly in pairs, 1-3 flow- 

 ered; sometimes we find a third, but which we have not 

 seen come to perfection with us. Flowers of a pinkish buff- 

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

 late ball, formed by a narrow continuous line winding in 

 short equal close alternate folds upwards and downwards, 

 round a receptacle or knob at the point of the filament. 

 The plants in our collections have produced none but bar- 

 ren (lowers, such as have the stamen only; hence we have 

 presumed the species to be dioecious, producing the fertile 

 flowers, those with the pistil, on a distinct plant. 



In Jussieu's system the genus makes a part of the or- 

 der Cucurbitaccte or Gourd-tribe : an order of which the 

 genera, from imperfect definition and inconnexedly assorted 

 species, are almost useless, and their revision by a compe- 

 tent botanist an urgent want in the science. 



Bryonia qubiqueloba is no where mentioned as a plant ever 



been in any eui opean 



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. 



a The calyx. I The 





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