GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



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Roupellia • grata. Hooker. A hothouse climbing plant from Sierra Leone, with 

 large coarse white flowers. Belongs to the Dogbanes (Ajpocpiacece). Introduced by Mr. 

 Whitfield. (Fig. 45.) 



This plant produces what is called u 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 the acridity for which its race is notorious. In the Botanical Magazine it 



is represented with delicate snow- 

 white, wavy, slightly notched 

 lobes to the corolla, varied with 

 ten beautiful flesh-coloured pro- 

 cesses rising up from the mouth. A 

 plant, however, which was exhibited 

 by Mr. Colyer's gardener at 

 a meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society by no means justified the flattering account that had been given of it ; for the flowers were great leather} bodies, 

 not white, but dirty, like half-soiled kid gloves ; while the delicate flesh-coloured teeth proved to be ten huge, ugly, brown 



