works, and have been induced to publish tlie present figure 

 for that reason. 



On the first appeai-ance of the plant in the gardens of 

 Europe, it attracted much attention by the curious trans- 

 itions of a corolla, opening in the morning from green 

 to white, about noon beginning to redden, in the evening 

 deepening to a full crimson, then quickly fading. 



Drawn last November three years, in the hothouse of 

 Mr. Vere, at Kensington Gore. 



An arboreous shrub, with a stem 8 or 9 feet high, 

 and 2 or 3 inches in diameter. Ferrari, who has allotted 

 several fine engravings and many pages of description to its 

 illustration, likens the leaves to those of the Vine for size, to 

 the Fig-tree for hue and surface, to the Ivy for the angular 

 incisure of the circimiference. It should be observed, that 

 when he says the seeds came from the West Indies, he men- 

 tions its appellation as being Fuyo, which is its vernacular 

 one in its native Japan. 



