cision the trunk yields a white coagulable milk, which is 
described by Gamble as “ a good sort of Caoutchouc.”’ 
Chonemorpha macrophylla was raised at the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent from those of Calcutta in 
1884. The plant is trained against a rafterin the Victoria 
Regia House, where it develops its sweet-scented flowers 
in July. 
Descr—A very large scandent shrub, more or less 
pubescent, or with the leaves almost hirsute beneath ; 
branches stout, terete. Leaves large, up to ten inches 
long and broad, opposite, shortly petioled, from orbicular 
to ovate or obovate, cuspidate, base cuneate, rounded, or 
subcordate, dark green above with ten to twelve pairs of 
sunk arching nerves, beneath always more or less pubes- 
cent, very pale green, with prominent nerves and cross- 
nervules; petiole terete. Flowers in subterminal shortly 
peduncled cymes, with widely spreading terete green 
branches and pedicels speckled with red; pedicels one 
half to three-fourths of an inch long; bracts minute, 
ovate, acute, brown. Calyx three-fourths of an inch 
long, tubular, terete, unequally shortly 5-lobed, at length 
on withering red-brown and tightly constricting the tube 
of the corolla. Corolla white, tube proper very short, 
hairy within, produced into a tubular terete throat an inch 
and a half long above the insertion of the stamens; limb 
three inches broad, lobes broadly obliquely triangular or 
trapezoid from a very narrow base, white, yellowish to- 
wards the narrow mouth. Stamens inserted at the mouth 
of the tube at the bottom of the long throat, filaments 
very short, pubescent ; anthers sagittate. Disk five-lobed. 
Ovary two-grooved, narrowed into a long two-grooved 
style which is hairy at the top and terminated by a 
conical bifid stigma constricted at the base. Iruit of two 
long straight hard trigonous follicles, twelve to eighteen 
inches long. Seeds flat with a long tuft of hair.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Base of calyx and corolla bisected; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary 
and disk :—AJ/ enlarged. 
