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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. Char. — Flos masc. Cal, turbinatus, 5-phyllus. Cor. 

 pentapetala, campanuliformis, petalis laciniatis. Stam. 5 

 distincta, quorum 4 ad basin per paria unita. Antherce 

 simplices, aequales, trigonae, uniloculares. Stylus nullus. 



Flos foem. 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 com- 

 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 drawi^ up from 



the living plant in the Island of Zanzibar, near the East 



Coast of Africa, in August, 1824.) 



Planta mascula. Radix prostrata, digiti crassitie, carnosa, 

 irregulariter geniculata. Caulis perennis, inferne lignosus, 

 externe suberosus in planta juniore: diametro 2-4 

 pollicaris, scandens. Eami elongati, 50 ad 100 pedes 

 longi, flagelliformes, inferne teretes, superne angulati, laete 

 virides, glabri. Folia regulariter pedata, longe-petiolata ; 

 foliolis oblongo-ovatis subsessilibus, acuminatis, utrinque 

 attenuatis dentato-repandis aut laciniatis, involutis, 

 medio latioribus, 3-4 pollices longis, 2 poUices latis, 

 lateralibus minoribus basi extus auriculatis, omnibus 

 nervosis, supra viridibus lucidis utrinque glabris, subtus 

 pallidioribus, albo-punctatis, nervis puberulis, scabrius- 

 culis. Stipula, corpusculum pedunculatum ex axillis 

 petiolorum cirrho oppositum, concavum, pubescens. 

 Petiolus communis teres, supra sulcatus, longitudine 

 foliorum, glaber. Cirrhi e basi petiolorum laterales, 

 bipedales et ultra, bipartiti, varie torti, glabri, demum 



