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HENFREYA scandens. 
Climbing Henfreya. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ACANTHACER. $ RUELLIÆ. | (ACANTHADS, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 678.) 
HENFREY 4.—Scandens, racemis nudis multifloris. Calyx 5-partitus. 
Corolla infundibularis, bilabiata, laciniis subaegualibus. Stamina 4, antheris 
basi aristatis. Ovarium loculis dispermis. Stigma parvum, bilobum, ob- 
tusum, eequale. Capsula clavata, stipitata, apice tantum seminifera. Semina 
(immatura) circularia, immarginata, lævia.— Lindley in Bot. Reg. 1847. sub 
8:23: 
H. scandens, Lindley, 1. c. 
The climbing habit of this plant is an unusual feature in 
the order to which it belongs. We presume it to be nearly 
related to Thonning’s Ruellia quaterna, another West African 
climbing plant, with white flowers. 
Under the provisional name of Dipteracanthus ? scandens, 
it was exhibited by Mr. Glendinning of Turnham Green, at 
a meeting of the Horticultural Society, in the spring of the 
present year, when it was awarded a Knightian medal. A 
full examination of the structure, having shewn that it forms 
a new and very distinct genus, we have ventured to name it 
after Arthur Henfrey, Esq., F.L.S., a gentleman already 
much distinguished for his sound acquaintance with Botany, 
especially Vegetable Anatomy. Its stigma separates it deci- 
sively from both Dipteracanthus and Strobilanthes, to which 
it has in other respects much apparent affinity. In Henfreya, 
this organ consists of two short blunt lobes, while, in the 
latter genera, it consists of two very unequal teeth, one of 
which is drawn into a fine point. Moreover, neither Dipte- 
racanths, nor Strobilanths, have aristate anthers, and the 
former has four to six ovules in each cell of the ovary, the 
latter angular seeds. 
This species seems to be common at Sierra Leone; it was 
found there by Mr. George Don, whose specimens, in our 
