It was named B. Cherere by its discoverer, and was 

 republished under that name by Lamarck in the French 

 EncyclopcEcUa. Willdenow, who had never seen the plant, 

 and who, in fact, knew nothing about it beyond what he 

 learned from its previous describers, thought proper, m 

 that abominable spirit of change which characterised the 

 school to which he belonged, to alter the name to hetero- 

 phylla. It is surprising that naturalists cannot see the 

 evil to which these arbitrary and useless interferences with 

 nomenclature give rise. 



A conservatory climber, pre-eminently beautiful among 

 the lovely race to which it belongs. Propagated readily 

 by cuttings, and requiring no particular management beyond 

 that of giving it plenty of room to run. 



A climbing shrub, with smooth, angular shoots. Leaflets 

 ternate or binate (one of the leaflets being converted into a 

 tendril), somewhat cordate, oblong, cuspidate, with pel- 

 lucid dots, slightly hairy beneath and on the petioles. 

 Racemes axillary in the wild plant, terminal in the culti- 

 vated one, sometimes panicled and many-flowered ; pedicels 

 pubescent, bractece deciduous. Calyx campanulate, trun- 

 cate, velvety, 5-toothed. Corolla 2i inches long, dov^^-ny, 

 the tube slightly curved, the limb 5-parted ; the segments 

 oblong, emarginate, nearly equal. Stamens protruded ; 

 filaments slightly pubescent ; anthers sagittate, the lobes 

 divaricate and linear, the connectivum mucronate. 



J. L. 



