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Twining or upright shrubs, with ribbed or ! 

 leaves Flowers large, showy, p, solitary, 

 with tin- calyx coloured, membra- 

 nous and short, or hexapetaloida 

 with the sepals and [ual and 



similar. Stamens tied into 



the base of the perianth ; antl 

 linear, opening longitudinally. 

 •v l-ceUed, free, with '■'> parietal 

 phi, -.It- long, club-shaped ; 



sti L -: i ales 00, orthotropal, 



<ii\. loped in mucilage. Fruit - 

 culent Nothing more known with 



Jnty, except that the - 

 Lapageria are obovate, horny, and 

 buried in pulp, according to the 

 Flora Peruviana. 



In the last edition of this 

 I reganlnl these plants as forming 

 a part of 1 1 »« - Roxburgh-worts; 

 the discovery by Mr. Griffith, that 

 the carpel of these plants is quite 

 simple, anil a further consideration 

 of the parietal placenta;, orthotro- 

 pal ovules, and bexamerouB flowers 

 of the Phfleeiads, has decided me to 

 separate them, in the belief that 

 recruits may be hi n after found 

 for them. Wry little i> known 

 about thi m nt pro- nt : no one has 

 analysed their seeds, and it ia even 

 doubtful whether the two genera here brought together 

 suppos L For my part, I only know the ovules of PI 

 .Smilax bearing the flowers of a Bonn 



Chili, especially its southern provinces, produces all w< 

 of these plai 



Lapageria rosea, a mosl beautiful twiner, is said to h 

 root like Sarpaparilla in quality. 



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