154 
from the pen of M. Jean Vincent; a gentleman whose 
acquaintance I lately had the honour of making in London, 
and after whom the Vincentia in the Botanical Miscellany, v. 
1. p. 293, t. 62, is named by M. Bojer. 
Gen. CHan.—Fros masc. Cal. turbinatus, 5-phyllus. Cor. 
pentapetala, campanuliformis, petalis laciniatis. Stam. 5 
distincta, quorum 4 ad basin per paria unita. Anthere 
simplices, zequales, trigonze, uniloculares. Stylus nullus. 
Fros ram. Cal. minimus, 5-dentatus, caducus. Cor. 5- 
petala, patentissima, Stylus 1, brevis, trigonus. Stigma 
lobatum. Ovarium inferum, 10-sulcatum, basi torulosum. 
Fructus: Bacca maxima, elongata, 10-angulata, sulcata, 
cortice carnoso, 6-locularis, polysperma. Semina come 
pressa, subrotundo-cuneata, in loculo singula serie dis- 
posita.  Integumentum duplex: ext. longitudinaliter 
- fibrosum ; int, crustaceum, fusco-olivaceum. 
(The following account of the species was drawa up from 
the living plant in the Island of Zanzibar, near the East 
Coast of Africa, in August, 1824.) 
PrawTA MASCULA. Radix prostrata, digiti crassitie, carnoso 
irregulariter geniculata, Caulis perennis, inferne lignosus 
externe suberosus in planta juniore: diametro 
pollicaris, scandens. Rami elongati, 50 ad 100 pedes 
longi, flagelliformes, inferne teretes, superne angulati, leete 
virides, glabri. Folia regulariter pedata, longe-petiolata: 
foliolis oblongo-ovatis subsessilibus, acuminatis, utrinque 
attenuatis dentato-repandis aut laciniatis, involuti 
medio latioribus, 3-4 pollices longis, 2 pollices Int 
lateralibus minoribus basi extus auriculatis, omnibus 
.  mervosis, supra viridibus lucidis utrinque glabris, subtus 
- pallidioribus, albo-punctatis, nervis puberulis, scabrius- 
culis. Stipula, corpusculum pedunculatum ex 
. petiolorum cirrho oppositum, concavum, pubescens. 
