tire, Of Linneus’s plant we can only judge from what he 
himself has told us, and from the figure in Dr. Smith’s 
“ Spicilegium,” which we should have taken for our plant, 
but for the indented ray, no simple ovate leaf being shown © 
there. Of the species described and figured by Sloane, a — 
specimen sent from Jamaica by Dr. Houston, is deposited — 
‘in the Banksian Herbarium, as the Linnean reptas; so.are 
two others from the same quarter presented by Mr. Shake- — 
speare, but these in truth belong to the present species, 
and are distinct from both the preceding. 
Our plant had been raised from seed about three years 
ago, and attained the height of eight feet, supporting 
itself by twining round its prop. Corymbs generally five- 
flowered, terminating the branchlets that issue from the 
axils of the upper leaves: flowers of a golden yellow, dark- 
ened in the disk by brown half-extruded anthers : peduncles 
sometimes divided above the middle. Stem about the thick- 
ness of a large wheaten straw near the base. Upper Jeaflet 
of the leaves about 2 inches long, Haviag seen only one 
living specimen, and that under very artificial culture, we 
have not ventured to call it wolubilis, although apparently 
the fittest name.—A native of Jamaica, and perhaps of 
other parts of the West Indies. Messrs. Colville, to whom — 
its mtroduction is due, have na recollection of whence — 
they obtained the seed from which it was raised. Requires — 
to be kept in the bark-bed of the stove, where it flowers 
about December, ‘Che drawing was made at the nursery of — 
Messrs. Colville, King’s Road, Chelsea, 
a The calyx and chaffy receptacle. & A sterile floret of the ray. ¢ A , 
fertile floret of the disk seated between the two barbed awns of ger 
_men, d, The same magnified, 
