speaks of it as an inhabitant of wet and marshy places, creep- 

 ing along the ground or scrambling up neighbouring trees ; 

 and he compares the plant when in flower to a Musk Rose. 

 He says an essence is distilled from the flowers which is very 

 sweet and agreeable. 



This is in cultivation the smallest of all the species yet 

 known, not growing more than two feet high. It is sub-ever- 

 green, and rather tender, being sometimes killed to the 

 ground by the severity of winter. It flowers freely about the 

 end of June, if planted in the ordinary garden soil, and strikes 

 freely from cuttings of the half-ripened shoots. 



