glabrous: Anthers ovate, two-celled, yellow, exserted be- 
yond the mouth of the corolla. Pistil : Germen inferior, 
roundish, downy ; at its mouth, within the calyx, is a cir- 
cular, yellow gland or ring : Style subulate, fleshy : Stigma 
extinguisher-shaped, blunt, large. 
The present plant boasts of little beauty, but is deserv- 
ing of a figure, as a new species of a Genus, whereof 
only two have been hitherto described : namely, the Van- 
curr edulis of Vant, an esculent-fruited plant, native of 
Madagascar, and V. spinosa of Roxgureu, an inhabitant 
of Bengal and China. The present is, like the former, 
a native of Madagascar, and was received thence at the 
Liverpool Botanic Garden, where it has blossomed in May 
of the present year, 1830. It is at once distinguished from 
V. edulis by its leaves being broad and cordate at the base, 
and by the beautifully velvety foliage. | 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Stamen. 4. Section of the 
Germen:—magnified. 
