No. 451. 
MUSSÆNDA PUBESCENS. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is said to be a native of China, and 
to have been brought in 1805 to the Kew 
garden. Its flowers are curious, one of the 
divisions of the calyx being frequently en- 
larged and growing out into a broad white 
leaf. It is a climbing plant, and flourishes 
best when planted out in a border of the 
stove, flowering in ges and Mem: 
ans this and M. frondosa, except that 
. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, de- 
i that as having simple stipules: in 
our plant DeL: are double or forked ; Bur- 
mann’s figure in Thesaurus Zeylanicus, 76, 
quoted by him, i is certainly very much like 
our plant. It may be readily increased by 
cuttings, and the soil should be loam and 
peat. 
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