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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMOEANDA 
104. Eoupellia grata. Hooker. A hothouse climbing plant from Sierra Leone, with 
large coarse white flowers. Belongs to the Dogbanes {Apocynacea)* Introduced by Mr. Whitfield. 
(% 46). 
This plant produces what is called "Cream-fruit" in Sierra Leone; a name that has probably arisen from its 
yielding an abundance of cream-like juice when wounded. We should, however, be unwilling to put such a dainty in 
the mouth ; for it can hardly be destitute of die acridity for which its race is notorious. In the Botanical Magazine it 
Represented with delicate snow- 
K»te, wavy, slightly notched 
<*** to the corolla, varied with 
* en beautiful flesh-coloured pro- 
jases rising U p from the mouth. A 
P'aot howaver, winch wasexhibited 
June ' lVer ' 8 ^dener at the 
«ne meeting of the Horticultural ,, rt 1aV-c 
mX'r ""- J« 8t ^ the flattering account that had been given of it ; for the flowers were great eathery bodie 
0t Wh,te ' h * dirty, like half-soiled kid gloves ; while the delicate flesh-coloured teeth proved to be ten huge, ugly, bi own 
