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the appellation of “ The Elephant’s Foot ;” in other refpeéts, 
it very much refembles the common black Bryony (Tamus 
communis) of our hedges. The ftem, which is about the 
thicknefs of the little finger at the bafe and twining, re- 
quires fupport, by the help of which we have feen it reach the 
height of about eight feet. Found in the neighbourhood of 
Cape Town by Mr. Masson, by whom it was introduced into 
the Kew Gardens in 1774, where a male plant bloomed in 
1783, to which L’Heritrer owed his engraving; an engraving — 
that has been repeatedly cited, but as yet never publifhed. — 
We do not know that the female plant has ever before flowered 
in this country. Both L’Hrritier and the editors of the 
Hortus Kewenfis profefs merely to guefs between Tamus 
and Smixax for its genus, not being able to afcertain the | 
pofition of the germen from the male flower, the only one — 
they had feen. The root/fock in our fpecimen was a foot in — 
diameter ; the older or lower /eaves were obtufely or rounded- 
cordate, the new ones acutely fo, all entire and fmoothy of a 
paler green beneath; corol/a of a pale rufty yellow colour, 
{centlefs, and fhorter than the petioles. The foliage fhrinks to 
half iis fize in drying. 
Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered late this 
fummer, in Mr. Knicut’s greenhoufe, King’s-Road, which 
had been imported fome years back for Mr,Gzorce HipBERTS — 
Colle€tion at Clapham. G, 
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