Dictyopsis reticulata is a most beautiful tender greenhouse 

 climber, as graceful and as fitted for all decorative and orna- 

 mental purposes as MyrsiphyUum. It is a native of the 

 eastern districts of South Africa, from Albany and Somerset 

 (Mrs. Barber and Mr. Hutton) to British Kaffraria (Cooper) 

 and the coast land of Natal (Dr. Sutherland). 



Descr. A slender, graceful, glabrous leafy climber. Stems 

 and branches cylindric. Leaves sessile, ovate, acuminate, 

 rounded or cordate at the base, with many parallel nerves, the 

 central forming a distinct midrib, all finely reticulated with 

 cross-nerves. Peduncles axillary and terminal, three- or more- 

 flowered, sometimes paniculately branched. Flowers drooping, 

 pedicelled; pedicels articulate. Perianth tubular-campanu- 

 late, green below, white above, limb of six reflexed lobes. 

 Stamens six, filaments adherent to the sides of the base of 

 the perianth-tube ; anthers oblong. Ovary narrowed above 

 and below; style columnar; stigma capitate, three-lobed ; 

 ovules two to four in each cell. Berry subglobose, half 

 an inch in diameter. Seeds with a coriaceous coloured testa 

 and copious albumen. — J. 1). IL 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same laid open :— both magnified. 



