spreading ray about six, ligulate, narrow: florets of the disk 
sixteen to seventeen, tubular. Anthers and style much protruded : 
filaments with a knot or swelling below the summit. Anthers 
apiculate. Branches of the style subulate, downy. Achenium 
cylindrical. Pappus rather shorter than floret. W. J. H. 
Curt. This is a coarse-growing, soft-wooded, scandent plant, 
having a large, thick, fleshy root, of the nature of a tuber. It 
grows freely in a mixture of light loam and peat or leaf-mould, 
and, by its rapid growth and clean habit, is well adapted for 
covering trellis-work. in the hothouse, or it may be trained up 
arafter. It is not liable to be attacked by insects, which is a 
character much in its favour as a creeper. It increases readily by — 
cuttings; but these, on account of their soft, succulent nature, 
must not be kept too close, or they will be apt to damp off 
before they have had time to produce roots. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Floret of the disk. 3. Portion of the receptacle. 4. Apex 
of a floret of the ray. 5. Floret of the ray :—magnified. 
