in March, 1908, and one of the plants raised flowered for 

 the first time in June, 1913. We are as yet unable to 

 supply definite information as to its ability to withstand 

 our climate. It has hitherto been grown on a south wall 

 where it has kept quite healthy, but it is doubtful if it 

 would thrive without shelter of this kind. In its 

 behaviour under cultivation it closely resembles its 

 southern ally C. Meyeniana and, having regard to the 

 elevations at which it naturally occurs, it probably 

 possesses the same power of withstanding cold. It needs 

 a good loamy soil, and may be expected to thrive well 

 on calcareous formations. Its chief value in gardens 

 will be in making an addition to the rather scanty 

 number of cultivated climbers which are evergreen. 



Descbiption. — Shrub, all parts save the flowers gla- 

 brous ; stems climbing, costate. Leaves 3-foliolate, rather 

 long-petioled ; leaflets petiolulate, ovate, acute or acu- 

 minate, base cordate to rounded, 2-4 in. long, l|-2 in. 

 wide, quite entire, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved ; 

 petiole considerably widened at the base, flattened. 

 Inflorescence axillary, without bud-scales, in cultivated 

 examples 3-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, acute, \-\ in. 

 long ; pedicels \-\^ in. long, the lateral bracteolate near 

 the base. Sepals 4, spreading, lanceolate, green extern- 

 ally with a white pubescent margin, white within, f-j in. 

 long, J;-i in. wide. Stamens many ; filaments glabrous, 

 the outer longer, the inner shorter than the anthers ; 

 anthers oblong-linear, laterally dehiscent; connective 

 cuspidately produced. Pistils several, about ^ in. long ; 

 ovary pilose; style, when dry, plumose with tawny 

 hairs. 



Figs. 1 and 2, stamens ; 3, pistil : — all enlarged. 



