Christmas ; it was raised from seed sent by Mr. Sanderson 
in 1868. , 
Descr. Quite glabrous, lucid, shining. Sfems slender, 
twining, climbing trees for many feet, cylindric, terete, red- 
brown below; branches green. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter, 
triangular, acute or acuminate with acuminate simple 
lobed or toothed lateral lobes, base deeply cordate with a 
narrow sinus, dark glossy-green above, pale beneath, rather 
fleshy, nerves palmate as in the Ivy. Peduncles terminal and 
axillary, three to five inches long, slender, green, naked or 
with a few scattered subulate green bracts. Heads two and 
a half inches across. nvolucre one inch long; outer scales 
or bracteoles spreading and incurved, narrow linear, acumi- 
nate, as long as the inner, which are broader, acute, erect, 
and connivent into a cylinder, tips of all green. Ray-jlowers 
eight to twelve, very large; limb one and a half inches long, 
elliptic, pale yellow, with three minute blunt teeth at the 
much contracted tip ; disk-flowers about forty, small. Pappus 
of fine soft hairs. Achene slender, terete, striate-—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-; and 2, disk-flowers :—both magnified. 
