it is cultivated as an ornamental covering for walls, as well 

 as on account of the fragrance of the blossom, diffusing an 

 odour like that proceeding from the finer kinds of ripe fruits. 



The drawing was taken in the autumn before last, at the 

 Dowager Lady De Clifford's garden, Paddington, where the 

 fruit was produced, in the hothouse, probably for the first 

 time in Europe. The flower which is seen at the bottom of 

 our plate was obtained from the same source. Under a 

 warmer sun the bloom is described as yellow, not green, as 

 it proves to be with us: the fruit is likewise said to attain 

 that colour when well ripened, and is sometimes much larger 

 than in our specimen; but never eatable. 



Introduced in 1758 by the then Duke of Northumber- 

 land. In Mr. Brown's opinion the genus is intermediate 

 between Kadsura and Guattiera; the former of which 

 may probably prove not to be a genuine co-ordinate of the 

 Anonacecc, if it should turn out, as Mr. Brown has reason 

 to suspect from a dissection of the seed shown in the draw- 

 ing of an analogous species, that the albumen is even and 

 entire, instead of being indented and scored by the processes 

 of the interior membrane of the seminal covering as through- 

 out this order. 



In Unona, the genus where our plant was placed by M. 

 Decandolle, the petals are of unequal depths, the seedvessel 

 is many-seeded, the seeds disposed in one rank or one above 

 the other, and the stalk not furnished with any prehensile 

 tendril or grapple: in Artabotrys the petals are of equal 

 depths, the germen two-seeded growing up into a 2-(or 

 sometimes accidentally solitary-)seeded fruit, the seeds 

 without an arillus, placed side by side, not one above the 

 other, and the peduncle furnished with a grapple or crooked 

 tendril for its peculiar support, not as in most other ten- 

 dril-bearing plants, for the assistance of the branches in 

 their ascent. 



We understand that 3 species of Artabotrys besides the 

 present, are already known; one of which with curiously 

 small flowers has been recently discovered by Dr. Horsfield 

 during his residence in Java, and is in the rich Herbarium 

 that gentleman has brought to this country. 



In ANONAthe whole bunch or head of berried seedvessels 

 is concreted into a single fruit, something in the way of 

 the Pine-Apple. 



In Uvaria the berries of the bunch or head of fruit are 

 distinct as in the present genus, but are many-celled. 



