A slender evergreen branching sarmentose skrub, climbs 
ing, when it finds the means, to' a considerable height, 
which it reaches by the.help of the upper leaves, that serve 
as claspers, and twine themselves round whatever suits for, 
support. Foliage of a dark. shining green, brachiate, qui- 
nately winged, next the panicle often ternate, lowermost 
biternate; leaflets ovately lanceolate, loosely and irregularly 
serrate at their upper half, three cuter ones sometimes con- 
fluent: petioles slender, ‘wiry, elastic. Peduncles axillary, 
opposite, upright, ' villous, 3-5-flowered, brachiate and 
shorter. than ‘the leaves; each pedicle set in the axil of a 
simple ovate leaflet, one-flowered, thick, with a bibracteo- 
lated joint below the middle. . Flowers coriaceous, sweet- 
scented, of an opaque greenish buff colour, at first cer- 
nuous, afterwards less declined, entirely covered by a short 
close downy pile: petals 4, recurvedly rotate, acute, de- 
ciduous. .Pisti]s held together by a long entangled closa 
silky wool with which they are covered. 
. A greenhouse plant of easy culture. Propagated by 
layers with the facility common. to sarmentose plants. 
wers. about November... . 
^ A genus comprised in the Ranunculaceae of Jussieu... Am 
order: by which-it is the intention of Professor Decândolle: 
to commence his ardtous, and till now unattempted, enter-' 
prise, "^ The System of Vegetablês arranged according to. 
natural affinity.” -An attemptof which the proved talent ofi 
the author justifies'the- best expectation. He is now here" 
to avail himself of the treasures In the library and'herbaridta: 
of Sir Josepli Banks, made free to science with a munifíoeuce; 
that. has no-example;. and rêsorted to from every: peint of- 
the'globe with a confidence that has never beet: mdulged! 
ny vamo 707 oe ' n ; 
Thedrawing was made from a plant that flowered at the. 
reenhouse of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Parson's 
Green, near Fulham; and we'hear that at Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy's. nursery, ‘Hammersmith, there: is anothêr un- 
recorded’ species of the: genus frdm: ‘the Cape: of Good: 
Hope, which:has; not. yet flowered: here, : but.is expected: toi 
do seithis summer. . Qoi wen A migo 
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