Tas. 5584. 
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MYRSIPHYLLUM asparacowss. 
Asparaqus-leaved Myrsiphyllum. 
Nat. Ord. Lintace®.—HeExanpria Monoeyrnta. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, 6-partitum, quale, campanulato- 
connivens, apice patens. Stamina 6, basi laciniarum affixa, filamentis subu- 
latis; anthere peltate, erect. Ovariwm breviter stipitatum, 3-loculare ; 
styli 3, stricti, contigui, stigmatibus simplicibus ; ovu/a in loculis 2, super- 
posita. Baeca globosa, 3-locularis, loculis 2-spermis. Semina angulato- 
subglobosa, testa coriacea atra, umbilico ventrali punctiformi.—Suffrutex 
gracilis, Capensis, glaber. Folia breviter petiolata, ovato-lanceolata, nervosa. 
Flores ad basin folii ex axilla squamule scariose gemini v. terni, pedicellis 
nutantibus, medio articulatis. Endl. 
MyrsipuyiiuM asparagoides; gracillimum, ramis flexuosis, foliis ovato- 
oblongis ovato-cordatisve acutis nitidis, floribus parvis viridibus nu- 
tantibus. 
MyrsrPxyLuvum angustifolium. Mill. Dict.n.2. Willd. Sp. Pl.l.c. Ait. 
Hort. Kew. v.1. p. 490. 
MyrsIpuriium asparagoides. Willd.in Berl. Mag. v. 2. p. 25. 
Mepeora asparagoides. Willd, Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 270, edouté, Liliac. t. 
442. a 
Draca#na Medeoloides. Linn. fil. Suppl. 203. 
Asparaeus Medeoloides. Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 66. 
Myrsiphyllum asparagoides, though hitherto never figured 
in this country, was introduced into England so early as 
1702, by the Duchess of Beaufort. Although long since: 
almost gone out of cultivation, we have no hesitation in call- 
ing attention to it, as one of the most elegant greenhouse 
climbers that can well be found; nothing, indeed, can exceed 
the feathery lightness of the plant when well grown and 
flowered; and whether on account of its graceful habit, its 
flowering in mid-winter, the uniformity of its bright-green 
foliage, and perfume of its pearly flowers, it is one of the 
plants best suited for table decoration and ornamentation 
generally hitherto introduced. It is a native of various parts 
of the Cape of Good Hope colony, whence the ‘plants here 
JUNE lst, 1866. 
