male plant, the germens fell off soon after the decay of the 
flower. 
Feu, belongs to the Natural Order of Cucurbitacee, 
and is named in commemoration of Father Fruituiz, a 
celebrated astronomer and botanist. The Stem is angular, 
climbing, or, when unsupported, probably prostrate like 
a gourd. Leaves alternate, pedate, of five oblong-oval 
leaflets, with waved, and distantly toothed margins, point- 
ed at both ends: the hinder ones two-lobed. Tendrils axil- 
lary or lateral, divided, longer than the petiole. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, one-flowered, recurved. Germen inferior, 
enlarged and torulose at the base, lessening upwards, ten- 
grooved, apparently three-celled, with numerous ovules, 
in two rows in each cell, Calyx superior, very small, five- 
toothed, brown-purple. Corolla campanulate: petals five, 
distinct, wedge-shaped, with fimbriate, pubescent margins. 
Style thick : Stigma five-lobed. Imported Seed nearly or- 
bicular, compressed, about the size of a Windsor-bean, 
a little broader from side to side, than from base to point, 
covered with a reticulate-veined coat. When rubbed, the 
plant gives out a nauseous scent. 
Our friend Sir James E. Surru, being fortunately ona 
visit at Bury-Hill, at the time this plant was in flower, de- 
termined it to be an undescribed species of Frurii, and 
st the name and character which we have adopted. — 
e following extract of his letter to Ropert BarctyYs 
Esq. concerning his investigation of the genus, will, we 
doubt not, be acceptable to our botanical readers. 
“J found myself immediately embarrassed by numerous 
mistakes of Linnzus and others, but these concern the ori- 
ginal species only. F. scandens Lin. Sp. Pl. 1457, to 
which Linnzus referred Tricnosantues, n. 1. of Browne's 
Jamaica, 354, as well as his own T’ricHosantuEs punctata, 
Sp. Pl. 1432, both different plants from it and from each 
other. He judged them one species, consisting of two 
varieties, by Burmann in Pxumier’s Icones, t. 
and\210; but afterwards, in the 10th edition of his Syst- 
Nature, v. 2. 1292, he ted them, by the names of éri- 
lobata and cordifolia, 1 obtained, by special favour at 
Paris, a leaf of each, gathered in South America, by Pxv- 
mizR himself. These are distinct from any thing ever see? 
eam his F. trilobata, as well that of the Banksia® 
Herbarium being Brownez’s Tricuosantugs, n. 1. above 
mentioned, and no Feuillza at all. 
Whether Prumser’s tab. 209 and 210 be distinct 2-74 
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