some distance along the gallery rail, and almost reach 

 the top of the house, 60 ft. above the ground. It is 

 conspicuous by its handsome bright green foliage, and 

 copious panicles of very fragrant snow-white flowers, 

 which first appeared in September of last year. ^ The allied 

 F. papuana of New Guinea is also in cultivation at Kew, 

 but has not yet flowered. 



Descr. A tall, perfectly glabrous climber, with bright 



green terete rather soft branchlets, which, as well as the 



petioles and branches of the cyme, are streaked or spotted 



with white. Leaves six to eighteen inches long, ovate or 



oblong-ovate, accuminate, bright green, reticulated beneath, 



penninerved and three-nerved at the rounded or cordate 



base, where are situated some large orbicular glands, 



visible on both surfaces ; petiole three to six inches long, 



terete* Cyme laxly trichotomously branched, nearly a 



foot across ; peduncles three-quarters to one inch long, 



with several pairs of minute bracts distant from the flower. 



Floivers jointed on the peduncles, very shortly pedicelled. 



Calyx an inch long, oblong, green, at length splitting into 



two valves. Corolla white, tube not twice as long as the 



calyx, narrowly funnel-shaped ; lobes four, as long as the 



tube, oblong, tips rounded. Filaments straight, longer 



than the corolla-lobes, subequal, erect, slightly hairy below 



the middle ; anthers small, yellow. Ovary short, broad, 



four-lobed, pubescent, four-celled ; cells one-ovuled ; style 



very slender, as long as the filaments, tip bifid.— /. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Calyx in the act of splitting ; 2, calyx with one-half removed, show- 

 ing the ovary and style; 3 and 4 anthers ; 5, ovary and pedicel ; 6, transverse 

 section of ovary :— all enlaraed. 



' ovary :— all enlarged. 



