It was named B. Cherere by its discoverer, and was 
republished under that name by Lamarck in the French 
Encyclopedia. Willdenow, who had never seen the plant, 
and who, in fact, knew nothing about it beyond what he 
learned from its previous describers, thought proper, in 
that abominable spirit, of change which characterised the 
school to which he belonged, to alter the name to hetero- 
phylla. It is surprising that naturalists cannot see the 
evil to which these arbitrary and useless interferences with 
nomenclature give rise. 
A conservatory climber, pre-eminently beautiful among 
the lovely race to which it belongs. Propagated readily 
by cuttings, and requiring no particular management beyond 
that of giving it plenty of room to run. 
A climbing shrub, with smooth, angular shoots. Leaflets 
ternate or binate (one of the leaflets being converted into a 
tendril), somewhat cordate, oblong, cuspidate, with pel- 
lucid dots, slightly hairy beneath and on the petioles. 
Racemes axillary in the wild plant, terminal in the culti- 
vated one, sometimes panicled and many-flowered ; pedicels 
pubescent, bractee deciduous. Calyr campanulate, trun- 
cate, velvety, 5-toothed. Corolla 21 inches long, downy, 
the tube slightly curved, the limb 5-parted ; the segments 
oblong, emarginate, nearly equal. Stamens protruded ; 
Jilaments slightly pubescent; anthers sagittate, the lobes 
divaricate and linear, the connectivum mucronate. 
J. La 
