nectariferam in fundo uiceolt operiens. Bacca viridi-lutescens, albo-punctata, 
mole & feré forma ovi gallinacet, glabra lanuginosave, obsolete 8 rotundaté 
trigona. Semina compresso-cordata. i 
One of the oldest stove-plants in our collections, havin 
been introduced from the West Indies by Mr. Bentinck, af- 
terwards Lord Portland, in 1690. It has been found wild 
by Plumier and Jacquin in the Island of Martinique, grow- 
ing only in the closest groves and thickets, where it winds 
itself round the trees for support. According to Swartz 
and Miller, it is known among the english colonists in the 
West Indies by the name of “ the Water-Lemon:” Jacquin 
and Browne say by that of “the Honeysuckle;” the latter 
attributing the former appellation to maliformis, a closely 
allied species. Among the french colonists the fruit is in- 
cluded in the denomination of ‘“‘ Pommes de Lianes.” This 
is nearly of the form and size of a smallish Lemon, yellow 
spotted with white, having a soft leathery rind, enclosing 
a mass of separate brown flattish cordate cohesive seeds, 
each coated by a thick pulpy membrane constituting the 
esculent portion of the fruit, much as the case is with the 
Pomegranate. The pulp is watery and sweetish, of a 
pleasant taste, for the sake of which the fruit is eaten, as 
well as medicinally in fevers. When the rind is broken at 
the top, the eatable contents are obtained at once by a 
slight compression. The flowers are both fragrant and 
beautiful; the young foliage is of a bright tender green, 
gradually darkening till nearly black, in which it re- 
sembles, as well as slightly in shape, that of the Laurel. 
The way to grow the present, and indeed all the tropical 
Climbers, is to plant them in a border of earth formed round 
the inside of the bark-bed of the stove, and parted off from 
-the tan by thick boarding down to the bottom of the bed: 
the whole to be backed by trellis-work for them to climb 
on. In this way they thrive in great luxuriance, and are 
made to form a bower, some part or other of which is in 
bloom nearly the year through. Propagated without diffi- 
culty by layers and cuttings. Our drawing was made at the 
Comtesse de Vandes’s, Bayswater. 
a A ray of the outer circle ofthe crown. & One of the inner, 
