May, and occasionally again in autumn, even so late as 

 December. 0. Armandi, Franch., from Moupine, is cer- 

 tainly only a form of G. Meyeniana, with small flowers and 

 large bracts at the bases of the lower branches of the 

 panicle. 



G. Meyeniana was cultivated in the Nursery of Messrs. 

 Colvile, in the King's Road, Chelsea, in 1822, whence 

 procured was not then known. The specimen figured 

 was from a plant received from Mr. C. Ford, Superin- 

 tendent of the Hongkong Botanic Garden, in 1885. It 

 flowers annually in the Temperate House. 



Descr. — A tall, evergreen, glabrous or sparsely puberu- 

 lous climber, with a purplish-brown bark. Leaves 

 trifoliolate ; leaflets two to three inches long, petiolulate, 

 elliptic- or ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, acute or 

 acuminate, quite entire, coriaceous, base rounded or 

 cordate, three-nerved, dark green and glabrous above, 

 pale and puberulous beneath. Panicles large, effuse, 

 trichotomously branched, lax-flowered ; bracts at the bases 

 of the branches minute, rarely enlarged, coriaceous, entire 

 or lobed. Buds oblong, pale yellow. Flowers an inch 

 to an inch and a half across. Sepals linear-oblong, 

 spreading, white, margins tomentose, tips two-toothed. 

 Stamens about half as long as the sepals ; anthers as long 

 as the filaments. Achenes one-fourth of an inch Ion 

 obovate, flat, villous ; style an inch and a half Ion 

 feathery. — /. D. H. 



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Pig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, achene : — all enlarged; 

 6, achene of nat. size. 



