Plumier's figures. But it is clear that this his opinion did 

 not amount to conviction, or he would have insertedthat 

 species in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, where 

 our plant is not to be found under any name. In regard to 

 ourselves, a comparison of the plant itself with Plumier's 

 figure, has proved that the two are essentially distinct; the 

 leaves in capsularis are cordate at the base, not rounded as 

 here, the lobes obliquely truncated much shortened and di- 

 varicate as in rubra (see above vol. 2. tab. 95) without any 

 trace of the two parallel rows of small eye-like glands so 

 conspicuous in those of tuber osa. That species appears in 

 fact to be altogether much nearer to rubra than to the pre- 

 sent. Punctata, for which our plant seems to have been 

 sometimes mistaken, is widely different. It may be well to 

 mention, that Mr. Dryander directs, in the above-mentioned 

 note, that the synonym adduced to capsularis by Willdenow 

 from Miller's works should be expunged, as the prototype 

 specimen in the Banksian Herbarium shows that excellent 

 horticulturist to have intended a different species; one 

 nearer to oblongata than to either capsularis or rubra. 



Tuberosa is native of the West Indian Islands, and was 

 introduced many years ago. 



The drawing was taken at the nnrsery of Messrs. Col- 

 ville, in the King's Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowers 

 abundantly for a long time in succession, and proves a very 

 desirable ornament for the hothouse. 



A high climbing smoothish shrub, with tuberous roots. 

 Branches compressed, angularly fluted. Leaves oblong, 

 twolobed with a small awned segment sometimes a mere 

 awn in the fork of the division, rounded at the base, three- 

 nerved, larger ones six inches long, four broad, sometimes of, 

 one colour, sometimes paler at the disk, young ones fre- 

 quently of a liver-coloured brown, studded within the 2 

 lateral nerves, with a double row of small white glandular 

 eye-like dots pitted in the centre, surrounded by a brown 

 rim, the two nearest the base of the leaf larger than the rest, 

 all filled at first with a crystalline liquid, lobes cuneate and 

 taper-pointed generally parallel sometimes diverging and 

 shortened ; petioles scarcely exceeding half an inch in length, 

 glandless: stipules small, linearly subulate, often bent fal- 

 cately and reflexed so as to embrace the branch: tendrils 

 simple. Peduncles injpaiis, filiform, stiffish, elastic, one- 



