distinct form of the group, best distinguished by the 
elongated mid-lobe of the leaf, combined with the very much 
decurved axillary panicles and densely villous calyx. It is 
confined to China, where it was first collected by Sir G, 
Staunton at Kwang-tung during Lord Macartney’s Em- 
bassy in 1816. Besides being common in Hong Kong 
it inhabits Lo-fan-Shan, Hainan, and the North river. 
According to Ker (Bot. Reg. lc.) BR. reflewus was in 
cultivation in Lee’s Nursery, Hammersmith, in 1820, in 
which year it flowered in Mr. Kent’s of Clapton. The — 
_ drawing here given is from a plant clothing a pillar twenty 
feet high, in the Mexican wing of the Temperate House 
of the Royal Gardens. It was received in 1886 from 
the Royal Botanic Garden of Calcutta. It flowers in 
August, but does not ripen fruit. 
Descr.—A tall, stout climber ; branches, petioles, leaves 
beneath, and inflorescence covered with a cinnamon- 
brown villous pubescence. Prickies few, scattered, straight 
. or curved. Leaves three to eight inches long, broadly 
ovate or ovate-oblong from a cordate base, obtuse, entire 
or three to five-lobed, with the terminal lobe elongated, 
margins toothed, palmately three- to five-nerved at the 
base, nerves sunk above, very prominent beneath ; stipules 
pectinate. Flowers one half to three-fourths of an inch 
broad, crowded in small, decurved panicles, very shortly 
pedicelled. Bracts and sepals toothed. Petals white or — 
pink. Styles filiform, much longer than the stamens. 
Fruit small, globose, red-purple or black.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of stem and prickles; 2, the same with base of petiole 
and stipules; 3, Howers and bracts; 4, carpel:—AI/ enlarged. 
