CHYMOCARPUS PENTAPHYL'LUS. 
FIVE-LEAVED CHYMOCARPUS. 
Class. Order. 
OCTAN DRI A. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
tropjeole m. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. America. 
3 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1834. 
No. 480. 
The Greek words, kymos, juicy ; and karpos, 
a fruit, afford a well characterised name for the pre- 
sent plant as the head of a new genus. The spe- 
cific name is also of Greek derivation from pente, 
five; and phullon, a leaf. 
This singular climbing plant has been known to 
botanists for many years, through the observations 
of the celebrated French naturalist, Commerson. 
He found it growing near Buenos Ayres, fastening 
itself upon shrubs. It had also fallen under the 
notice of other travellers, but was first cultivated in 
Great Britain from South American seeds, by Mr. 
Neill, whose garden, on the edge of the modern 
Athens, we have just noticed, under No. 477. 
Mr. D. Don, in the Linnean Transactions, has 
given a definite character of this novel subject, and 
made it the type of the new genus, Chymocarpus. 
The calyx of Tropseolum and many other plants is 
deciduous and unimportant, otherwise than as a 
protection to the incipient flower; but in the one 
before us it is persistent or lasting, and of singular 
habit. In illustration we may give Mr. Don’s words, 
which we find in a supplemental paper on the Chy- 
