growing commonly oyer littoral hedges of Euphorbia apliylla. 
Our plant was raised from seed presented by Mr. Tyerman, 
late of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, in 1870 ; it flowered in 
the Palm House in September, 1876. 
Be scr. An extensive climber, glabrous (except the 
pubescent young parts, petioles, and racemes) with a stout, 
fleshy perennial root, and Very slender angled and grooved stem 
and branches. Leaves alternate, petioled, pedately five-folio- 
late ; leaflets three to six inches long, shortly petiolulate, ellip- 
tic-ovate, obtusely acuminate, sinuate-toothed, triplenerved at 
the base, with many transverse veins, membranous, bright green. 
Tendrils bifid. Male racemes a foot long, six- to ten-flowered ; 
bracts small. Flowers one and a half to two inches in diameter ; 
pedicel slender, one inch long. Calyx-tube hemispherical, 
grooved ; lobes broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, serrate. 
Corolla broadly campanulate, white, with a purple eye; 
segments fimbriate. Stamens five, two of them four-celled, 
one one-celled, connective dilated ; filaments three, free. Fruit 
two feet long, ovoid-oblong, obtusely beaked, yellow-green, 
with ten thick wings an inch deep, three-celled, and flesh 
of golden yellow pulp. Seeds horizontal, one and a quarter 
inch diameter, very numerous, nearly orbicular, compressed ; 
testa brown, coriaceous ; cotyledons plano-convex, fleshy. — 
J. I). LI. 
Fig. 1, Branch with male flowers ; 2, flower with course removed ; 3, fruit ; 4, 
trauverse section of do. ; 5, seed ; 6, tranverse ; and 7, vertical section of do. : all but 
fig. 2 of the natural size. 
