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NiEus and Vahl, and, consequently, to Gartner's genus 

 Cyminosma. With the Gel alanceolata of Loureiro it also 

 agrees in every particular, except in the nature of the fruit, 

 which in Gela is stated to be a one-celled drupa. Whether 

 the fruit of this plant, in a perfect state, assumes such an 

 appearance, or whether it has been inaccurately described, it 

 fortunately is not necessary to enquire, because it appears, 

 as Mr. Brown has kindly informed me, from Loureiro's 

 own specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, that his Gela lan- 

 ceolata, and the Jambolifera pedunculata of Linnaeus, are 

 the same. The plant is propagated by cuttings, and is about 

 as hardy as an Orange. 



XI. Haemadictyon venosum. 



Echites nutans. Sims. 

 Echites sanguinolenta. Tussac. 

 This plant has been figured in the Botanical Magazine, 

 tab. 2473, under the name of Echites nutans, by which 

 it was introduced from the Island of St. Vincent's. The 

 stem is twining, to the length of about twenty feet ; the 

 leaves are oblong-lanceolate, stalked, quite smooth, a little 

 blistered, and beautifully traversed with crimson veins. 

 The flowers are produced in smooth, axillary, nodding 

 racemes, are of a dull yellowish green colour, paler in the 

 centre. The calyx is fleshy, with five small revolute sepals. 

 The corolla is salver-shaped, with a cylindrical tube, which is 

 pilose inside, and a large reflexed limb, which is plaited 

 between each of the rounded curled concave segments. In 

 the inside of the tube are five scales alternate with the seg- 

 ments ; and just under, and opposite the scales, are inserted 

 the anthers, which are nearly smooth, sagittate, pointed, and 



