do I owe the acquaintance of the gentleman after whom the 
present plant is named, together with the possession of a va- 
luable collection of. New Holland plants, and the use of many 
excellent drawings made in that country. It has not, however, 
been my agreeable task to dedicate the genus to him, that ha- 
ving been already done in the work above quoted by Mr At- 
LAN, CUNNINGHAM. .“ The name,” he says, “ now proposed, 
is intended to commemorate that of Barron Frexp, Esq. late 
udge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, who has, 
in his-judicial capacity, much aided the advancement of the co- 
lony to its present flourishing state, and whose important re- 
searches there, in various branches of physical science, will ma- 
terially tend to confer that interest upon our distant settlement 
which it so richly deserves, and which remains, in a great mea- 
sure, to be appreciated.” 
To this gentleman I am indebted for excellent “dried: speci- 
mens, from which I have been enabled to make the accompany- _ 
ing figure. I need scarcely add any remarks to Mr CUNNING- __ 
HAM’s accurate description, done from living specimens, farther 
| than to say, that the fruit has not so dates. the Sipe ee 
of a berry as might have been expected. I jisofa 
membranous nature, easily separable from the poly substa: ee, a 
and numerous seeds within ; and, on making a careful dissection a 
tansversy, there appear to be two soft fleshy and large parie- 
tal receptacles, divided each into four recurved lamina, upon all 
sides of 9f which the the nu seeds are inserted. ‘These recep- 
: id see 7 too, bear so much resemblance t to ee of the 
“Field pesttabiewas first detected by Mr G. a, Co- ae 
= Botanist, but not in a good state, upon the Blue Moun- | 
© tale BS Te 1822, "Mr ALLan CUNNINGHAM was so 
: fortunate as to find it in fruit, upon naked nee the 
Islands; and in the following year in full. flowe ver, among 
3 shady woods of Tomah, where it climbs, by means of its cz 
