Tas. 7675. 
ASPARAGUS SCANDENS. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Lin1acr#.—Tribe ASPARAGER. 
Genus Asraracus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ili. p. 765.) 
Asparacus (Aspargopsis) scandens; glaberrimus, gracilis, scandens, caule 
tereti ramoso, ramis dependentibus gracillimis, ramulis simplicibus 3-3- 
poll. longis multinodis, internodiis cladodiis brevioribus, foliis ad basin 
ramulorum minutis subulatis vix spinescentibus, cladodiis 3-4 poll. longis 
ternis (floriferis ssepius solitariis) lineari-subulatis leviter incurvis 
acuminatis trigonis, floribus solitariis, pedicellis cladodiis fere duplo 
longioribus medio articulatis, floribus ad 3 poll. latis bisexualibus, 
perianthii segmentis exterioribus obovato-oblongis obtusis, interioribus 
paullo angustioribus, staminibus segmentis perianthii equilongis, antheris 
oblongis, baccis globosis 4-} poll. diam. rubris apiculatis monospermis. 
A. scandens, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. p. 63; Fl. Cap. ed. Sch. p. 334. Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. IT. vol. ii. p. 273. Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. vol. i. t. 
21; in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 622; in Fl. Capens. vol. vi. p. 268. 
Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. i. p. 178. 
A. pectinatus, Red. Liliac. vol. vii. t. 407. 
Asparacopsis scandens, Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. v. p. 78. 
Dracana volubilis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 204. 
It is noteworthy that of a genus containing nearly 150 
reputed species, some long known as ornamental green- 
house plants, easy of culture, not one should have hitherto 
found a place in “‘ The Botanical Magazine.” Fourteen are 
recorded as cultivated at Kew in 181], by Aiton, in the 
second edition of the ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis.” There are now 
twenty-five in cultivation in European gardens, as enume- 
rated in Mr. Watson’s list, published last year in the 
Gardener’s Chronicle. The headquarters of the genus is 
South Africa, from which country Mr. Baker describes 
forty-four species in the “ Flora Capensis”’ (1896). 
A. scandens is a native of the coast region.of the Cape 
Colony, extending from Capetown itself to King William’s 
Town, and inland no further than Somerset. It was in- 
troduced into England by the Kew collector, Mr. Mason, 
in 1795, and flowers and fruits annually in the Royal 
Gardens in summer and winter respectively. The figure 
was made from a fruiting specimen sent by Mr. Leech, of the 
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