5000 ft., near the Latimer Cinchona plantations, and was 
not observed elsewhere. His impression at the time of-its 
- discovery was, that (like so many other mountain plants of 
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the Island) it was not indigenous ; but on the other hand it 
so closely: resembles the native Coniosicyos pomiformis, 
that it may well be ‘so, and have been overlooked by pre- 
vious collectors. Mr. Morris sent dried specimens to Kew 
in 1884, accompanied with dried fruit, seeds, and a sketch 
of,the male flowers by Mr. Hart; these last are smaller than 
in the plant cultivated at Kew, where plants raised from 
Mr. Morris’ seeds flowered in the Water-lily House first m 
September, 1886. 
Desor. A tall perennial climber, nearly glabrous. Leaves 
three to four inches in diameter, reniform in outline, deeply 
three- to five-lobed, smooth or punctulate, base cordate 
with a deep rounded sinus ; lobes ovate with long acumi- 
nate tips, entire or remotely denticulate, dark green, rather 
shining. Tendrils three-fid, their tips dilated and adhe- 
rent to supports. Male flower solitary; peduncle ro- ° 
bust. Calyx pubescent, limb campanulate; lobes ovate, 
subacute, spreading. Corolla an inch in diameter ; golden: 
‘yellow, pubescent without and with broad greenish nerves, 
densely tomentose within ; lobes broadly ovate, recurved ; 
abortive ovary oblong. Filaments very short, glabrous, 
free or nearly so; anthers consolidated into a broadly 
oblong or globose head; cells contortuplicate ; staminodes 
of a few bristles. Female flower not seen. Fruit globose, 
about the size of a small orange; pericarp thin, smooth, 
glabrous. Seeds one-third of an inch long, oblong, flat, 
es : spe ee winged border ; testa smooth, crustaceous. 
Fig. 1, Top of ovary of male fl. with stamens and staminodes ; 2, transverse 
section of the abortive ovary :—both enlarged. 
