other collections, for rather less than three years, and the 
first plant to flower in England is one at Nuneham in the 
garden of the Right Hon. L. Harcourt, to whom we are 
indebted for the material on which our illustration is based. 
A free-growing climber which promises to be hardy, 
L. Henry is very easily propagated by means of cuitings 
made of half-ripened shoots taken about the end of July 
and placed in gentle bottom heat. The fact that the species 
is evergreen gives it a particular value in gardens, for in 
spite of the quite extraordinary number of hardy woody 
plants that have been introduced during the last decade, 
true evergreen climbers, as distinguished from the bushy 
shrubs made to do duty as such on garden walls, form still 
but a small group. This is largely due to the fact that 
evergreen climbers represent a type of vegetation more 
characteristic of tropical and subtropical than of the cool 
temperate zones ; any accession to their numbers which is 
likely to thrive in our climate is therefore welcome. 
Descriprion.—Shrub; climbing ; twigs slender, at first 
densely tawny-pubescent, at length almost glabrous; bark 
reddish-brown. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acutely acumi- 
mate, base rounded, truncate or slightly cordate, 13—23 in. 
long, $—-3 in. wide, papery, glabrous on both surfaces except 
on the midrib, margin ciliate, lateral nerves 8-10 on each 
side, curved within the margin, impressed above, raised 
beneath, transverse veins visible on both surfaces. FVowers 
sessile, on 2-flowered peduncles 4-3 in. long towards the ends 
of the branches; bracts subulate, over } in. long, setulose ; 
bracteoles small, ovate-oblong, setulose ciliate. Receptacles 
free, glabrous, about 2 lin. long. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 
somewhat obtuse, about 1 lin. long, sparingly setulose 
ciliate. Corolla 2-labiate, tube about § in. long, glabrous 
without, pilose within; lower lip of one oblong obtuse 
lobe 3 in. long, under } in. wide, upper lip of 4 oblong 
obtuse lobes auriculate at the base on their inner margins. 
Stamens slightly exserted ; filaments sparsely pilose; anthers 
oblong, versatile, 2 lin. long. Style about as long as the 
stamens, sparingly pilose; stigma small, capitate. 
Fig. 1, a pair of flowers; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, upper portion of style, and 
stigma :—a'l enlarged. 
