Tas. 6408. 
ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER. 
Natiwe of Chili. 
Nat. Ord. Branontacem.—Tribe JACARANDEA. 
Genus Eccremocanpus, Ruiz et Pavon. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl.v. ii. p.1050.) 
Eccremocarrus (Calampelis) scaber ; scandens, ramis gracilibus angulatis, ramulis 
petiolis et inflorescentia puberulis, v. scaberulis, foliis oppositis bipinnatis 
petiolo stricto rachi pinnarum flexuoso, pinnulis alternis petiolulatis oblique 
ovatis cordatis v. subrotundatis integris v. 2-3-lobis, cirrhis dichotome 
ramosis, racemis elongatis secundifloris, bracteis parvis, calycis tubo subin- 
flato, lobis triangularibus, corolle tubo hinc ventricoso, ore contracto, limbo 
parvo angusto annulari recurvo 5-lobo, antheris refractis loculis divaricatis, 
capsula stipitata elongato-ovoidea acuta membranacea inflata, seminibus 
multiseriatis ala orbiculari basi emarginato. ; 
E. scaber, Ruiz et Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. p.90; Syst. Veg. p. 157; Lindl. in 
Trans. Hort. Soc. vol. vii. p. 249; Bot. Reg. t. 939; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1411; 
DC. Prod, vol. ix. p. 238; Rev. Hortic. p.857, Ic. Xylog. 
Catampetis scaber, Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1829, p. 89; Sweet. Brit. F1. 
Gard. ser. 2, t. 30; Hindlich. Iconog. Gen. Plant. t. 95. 
We take the opportunity of figuring the ripe fruit and 
seeds together with the flower of this old-established favourite, 
which has not till now found the place it should long since 
have occupied in the Botanica, Macazinz. Though originally 
introduced into England from Mexico in 1824 (when it was 
raised by Mr. Tate, of the long-abandoned Sloane Street 
Nursery), its native habitat is Chili, whence we have at 
Kew dried specimens, collected upwards of eighty years ago by 
the celebrated Archibald Menzies, when accompanying Capt. 
Vancouver in his surveying voyage to N. W. America, and 
when also he procured the seeds of the great tree of Araucaria 
imbricata, now growing in the Royal Garden at Kew. 
The motions of the stems, leaves, and tendrils of this 
plant have been described by Mr. Darwin in his admirable 
work ‘“‘On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants” 
(p. 103). He found that the internodes, leaves, and tendrils 
all revolved, all thus contributing their efforts towards 
finding support for the elongating climbing stem. Of these 
the internodes revolved at rates varying from 3} to 14 hours, 
sometimes standing still for 12 or 18 hours. The young main 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1879. 
