gardens, Woodhall, Dulwich, under the name of A, deflewus; 
but it is not the A. deflewus, Baker, of Angola, nor the var. 
deflecus, Baker, of A. scandens, which has zigzag branches — 
and smaller cladodes. | 
Descr.—A very slender, diffusely branching, unarmed ~ 
climber, with dependent filiform branches. Ultimate 
branchlets simple, one half to three inches long, sub-tri- 
gonous, with few or many internodes bearing normally three 
cladodes in a whorl, which are longer than the internodes. 
Leaves at the axils of the branches and branchlets, minute, 
membranous, rarely sub-spinescent. Cladodes one-third 
to half an inch long, rather broadly subulate, acuminate, 
trigonous, slightly incurved, the flower-bearing often soli- 
tary. Flowers solitary, rarely binate, axillary, pendulous ; 
pedicels about twice as long as the cladodes, but very 
variable in length, filiform, jointed about the middle; 
perianth about a fourth of an inch in diameter, outer 
segments oblong-obovate, obtuse, spreading and incurved, 
inner rather smaller and narrower. Stamens not longer 
than the’perianth-segments, anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary 
oblong, stigma erect. Berry globose, one-sixth to one- 
oe Cha ong in diam., apiculate, bright red, one- 
Fig. 1, Portion of branchlet with clad. : : : 4, seed; 
5, section of do., showing embryo i etacrra.” hone: aa 
