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BRYONIA quinqueloba. Mas. 
Five-fingered Cape Bryony. Barren-flowered. 
MON@CIA MONADELPHIA. 
BRYONIA. Monoica vy. rard dioica, (Cal. 1-phyllus, campanu- 
latus, 5-dentatus: denticulis subulatis. Cor. 5-partita, campanulata, 
calyci adnata: laciniis ovatis. Gen. pl. 663.) Masc. Fil. 3, brevissima, 
infra coalita, 2 diandra, 1 monandrum. Fam. Stylus 3-fidus; stig- 
mata $,emarginata. Bacca (infera) parva subglobosa levis, 1-(3- Gertn.) 
loc., polysperma; sem. pauca, (non plura senis, cellulis propriis conclusa. 
Gaertn.) Radix tuberosa. Caulis herbaceus, scandens, flexuosus. Folia 
alterna, cirrhis axillaribus instructa, punctis callosis aspersa. lores 
avillares, pedunculis. 1-multiloris. Jussieu. gen. 394, 
B. quinqueloba, dioica ; foliis cordatis sinu baseos profundo, superioribus 
palmato-quinquelobatis, lobis oblongis obtusissimis distantibus, superné 
repando-dentatis, dentibus mucronatis. 
Bryonia quinqueloba. Thunb. prod. 13. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 622. 
Radix perennis, magna, oblonga, communitér fustformis, carnosa. Caules 
herbacei, subangulati, ramosi per cirrhos scandentes. Volia ‘T-nervia, dis- 
tantia, inferiora sepe cordato-quinquangularia : lobi superiorum subequales 
intervallis latis divergentes, extimi 2 divaricati atque posticé sic auriculati ut 
conniveant imbricatim sinumque baseos integrent, cum folium diceretis pelta- 
tum: circumscriptio cunctis subrotunda ; diameter vix unguam tribus unctis 
latior ; omnia conspersa punctis callosis : pans brevis, flecus. _ Cirrhi 
spirales, capillares, solitari, petiolis laterales. | Pedunculi collocati inter 
cirrhum et petiolum, breviores folio, septs gemini, alter 1-florus, alter pau- 
ciflorus, nunc alius effectus (numne foemineus abortiens?). Masc. Flos 
ochroleucus, 1-2 uncias transversus. Cor, rotato-campanulata, tenera, lanugine 
molli brevissimd pruinata, picta venis, lacintis trinervibus. Stamen breve: 
fil. crassum: anthera capitata, erecta, oblato-globosa, aurantiaca, constans 
lined sursim et deorsiim flexa in plicas arctas, 
‘Native of the Cape of Good Hope; till now, only known 
by its specific phrase in Thunberg’s Prodromus. In such of 
our gardens into which it has as yet found its way, the 
plant has been taken for Bryonta grandis, an East Indian 
species; and in consequence treated too tenderly. It will 
do in the conservatory and greenhouse; but thrives most 
at the foot of a wall with a southern aspect, where its 
stems will extend themselves to the distance of 30 or 40 
feet, and produce larger and higher coloured bloom. 
Root large, fleshy, tapered, nearly as in the common 
Bryony of our own hedges. Stems herbaceous, slender, 
