( 1820 ) 



Bryonia quinqueloba. Five-fingered 

 Cape Bryony. 





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Class and Order. 



MoNCECIA MoNADELPHIA. 



Generic Character. 



Masc. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. Filamenta 3. 



Pem. Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. 5-partita. Stylus 3-fidus. 

 Bacca subglobosa, polysperma. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Bryonia quinqueloba ; (dioica ?) foliis qumquelobatis : lobis 

 obtusissimis dentato - mucronulatis posticis auriculatis, 

 pedunculis unifloris geminatis, corollis campanulatis semi- 

 quinquefidis. 



Bryonia quinqueloba; foliis quinquelobis denticulatis supra 

 scabris, pedunculis unifloris. Thunb. Prodr. IS. 



Bryonia quinqueloba, dioica ; foliis cordatis sinu baseos pro- 

 fundo, superioribus palmato-quinquelobatis, lobis oblon- 

 g-is obtusissimis distantibus superne repando-dentatis, 

 dentibus mucronatis. Bot. Reg. 89. 



This very rare plant has been supposed to be the Bryonia 

 grandis of Linnaeus, a native of the East- Indies, and, under 

 this notion, has been treated as a stove plant, in which situa- 

 tion we have observed it for some years at Bayswater, in the 

 collection of the Comtesse de Vandes. From this plant our 

 drawing- was made in September 1815. 



It is however a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 would probably do better if treated as a greenhouse plant. We 

 are indeed informed by the author of the Botanical Register, 



that 



