Blume observes, is acrid, and excites nausea; nevertheless the 
mountain tribes eat the plant uncooked, mixed with capsicum and 
salt, and consider that it assists digestion. Our drawing was 
made from Messrs. Veitch’s plant in November, 1856. 
Descr. Suffruticose climber; Jranches rather thick, terete, 
downy, green. Leaves opposite, distant, petiolate, elliptical, api- 
culate, thick, fleshy, pale green, three to five inches long, obtuse 
at the base, the margin a little recurved, penninerved ; xerves 
obscure, nearly horizontal: above glabrous, the costa on the 
upper side, and the whole leaf beneath, as well as the thick, 
terete petiole, about an inch long, are subvelutinous, the hairs 
(and wherever they exist on the plant) curved. Pedunc/e arising 
from between the pairs of leaves, an inch or more long, downy, 
bearing an wmbel of many flowers: pedicels (which are longer 
than the peduncle) downy. Calyx of five, downy, ovate, rather 
acute lobes. Corolla rotate: the /odes triangular, acute, mo- 
derately carnose, pale sulphur-yellow, with five small red spots 
at the base of the tube. Sfaminal crown large, conspicuous, 
of five blunt lobes or rays. Blume describes the fruit as 
“Folliculus cucumerinus, 8—10-poll., cylindricus, aliquantum cur- 
vatus, sulco longitudinali exaratus,—textura crassa spongiosa, 
sulco longitudinali tandem dehiscens.”’ 
Fig. 1. Portion of a pedicel, with the corona staminea :—magnified. 
petucReie tein otierey: 
