figured were sent by Mr. Cooper, and contributed by our 
friend W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. It flowered at Kew 
from January to March. The only other described species, 
M. angustifolia, appears to me not even to rank as a variety, 
the leaves being most variable on the same specimen. 
Descr. A slender bright-green greenhouse creeper. Stems 
much branched, flexuose. Leaves (flattened branches) alter- 
nate, and, like those of Ruscus, inserted in the axil of a 
minute scale, ovate ovate-cordate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
quite entire, glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers solitary or 
in pairs. or threes in the axils of the leaves, pendulous on 
- slender, articulated, short pedicels, one-third of an inch long, 
pearly-white or greenish. Segments of perianth linear, ob- 
tuse, reflexed. Stamens erect, with small orange-red anthers. © 
Ovary shortly stipitate, three-celled, with two superposed 
ovules in each cell. Berry globose, fleshy, six-seeded.— 
fe dh Al. 
Fig. 1. Branch and leaf. 2. Ditto and flowers. 3. Petal and stamen. 
4. Germen. 5. Transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. 
