1879. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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•Sons, of Chelsea, London, who give the follow- prominent, and of a reddish color; the upper 



ing account of its birthplace and peculiarities : surface of the leaf has a rich] velvety appear- 



"A beautiful stove climber, collected for us ance, colored with the brightest'green, a deeper 



in Costa Rica by the late M. Endres, with shade adjoining the niid-rib and veins ; the un- 



whose memory we have associated it. It is der surface a reddish brown, the red predomi- 



, CISSUS ENDEESII. 



more vi-^oro, s than the well-known C. dis- nating in the mid-rib and veins. The newest 

 color and hu-er in all its parts. Its fine large formed part of the stem and the youngest leaves 

 cordate-t,bovHte and acuminate leaves are from and tendrils are strongly tinged with crimson 

 seven to cLdit inches long, with a breadth of six ; i The robust growth of this Cissus combmed with 

 thlmd-rib veins and connecting veinlets are its ample foliage, renders it particularly adapted 



