large as in A, megalophylla. The leaves of greatest 
dimensions so far produced have approached three feet 
in length, and growths eight to ten feet long have been 
made during a single summer. In the south of England it 
succeeds well on a wall, but if grown in the open ground 
it needs a well-sheltered position in a sunny spot with a 
good loamy soil. The material for our figure we owe to 
the courtesy of Mr. L. Harcourt, in whose garden at Nuneham 
it thrives exceptionally well. 
Descriprioy.—Shrub, climbing by means of glabrous, 
leaf-opposed, branching tendrils. Leaves compound, the 
upper simply, the lower 2-3-pinnate; petiole and rhaehis 
purple; leaflets more or less petiolulate, the terminal 
eo elongated, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 
ase unequal, the lower side rounded the upper cuneate, at 
point of union with the petiolules slightly subcordate, 
margin coarsely toothed, 5 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, green 
above, glaucous beneath, minutely hairy in the angles of 
the main-nerves and larger veins. Cymes leaf-opposed, 
many-flowered, the rhachis finely pilose. Flowers green. 
Calyx large, membranous, lobes rounded. Petals spreading, 
triangular-ovate, acute, their margins papillose, Stamens 
opposite the petals; anthers cordate, slightly retuse at 
the tip. Disk intrastaminal, raised, 5-lobed; lobes alter- 
nate with the stamens. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 to each 
cell, erect ; style conspicuous, truncate at the tip; stigma 
terminal, concave. Fruit at first red-purple, at length 
blackish, about 4 in. across, | 
_ Fig. 1, flower-bud ; 2, the same, petals and stamens . wae 
within; 4, stamens; 5 and 6, seibeceso a clare: reinovéd ; 3, petal, 
