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with its bright, glossy, holly-leaved foliage, induced Dr. Hooker to 
consider it, and justly so, the handsomest known species of the 
genus. The wood is pale yellow, affording a gamboge-coloured 
' dye. The berries are of a deep steel-blue colour, and remarkable 
for their gourd-shaped form. We trust to be able to increase it, 
and to prove that the climate of Britain is suitable to it. Hitherto, 
on account of its rarity, we have given it the protection of a 
cold frame in winter, and in summer it requires to be well 
screened from the sun.— Bot. Mag. 4308. 
Acanthace^e . —Bidynamia Angiospermia. 
Henfreya scandens (Bindley). The climbing habit of this 
plant is an unusual feature in the order to which it belongs. We 
presume it to be nearly related to Thonning’s Rnellia quaterna, 
another West African climbing plant, with white flowers. The 
species seems to be common at Sierra Leone ; it was found there 
by Mr. George Don, whose specimens, in our Herbarium, are in 
fruit; and we also possess wild specimens from Mr. Whitfield, 
by whom it was introduced in a living state. We are indebted 
to Mr. Glendinning (who, under the provisional name of Biptera- 
canthns (?) scandens, exhibited the plant at a meeting of the 
Horticultural Society in the spring of the present year) for the 
following note on its management: 
“ Amongst the numerous plants of climbing habit which adorn 
our stoves, Henfreya scandens is assuredly a subject deserving 
our notice. Under the most liberal and satisfactory cultivation 
it never ranges beyond proper limits. Its foliage is not sub¬ 
ject to injury, being always dark green, coriaceous, and perma¬ 
nent, contrasting admirably with the delicate Petunia-like flowers 
which are produced in the utmost abundance in racemes, at the 
axil of every leaf, continuing to throw out a succession of bloom 
for several months. Its cultivation is not by any means difficult. 
The following treatment has enabled me to flower it with cer¬ 
tainty and success. After it has ceased to produce flowers in the 
spring or beginning of summer, it should be divested of the 
greater part of the old soil, and repotted into fresh turfy peat 
and loam, in equal portions, intermixed with a small portion of 
silver sand. The pot should be rather small in proportion to the 
size of the plant; plunge it in bottom heat, where a humid grow- 
