angular, flexuose, climbing by spiral filiform capillary ten- 
drils. eaves: cordate, deeply indented at the base, lower 
ones often repandly pentangular with an open petiolar sinus 
or hollow, upper ones palmately five-lobed, lobes: oblong, — 
outstretched, rounded, and sometimes broader upwards, two 
lowermost eared at the base so as to lap over each other and 
close the petiolar sinus, when the leaf appears peltate: all are 
repandly denticulate, with a mucro or point at the end of 
each small tooth, and thickly speckled with small callous 
dots which in a dried state often assume a chalky white- 
ness. Peduncles set between the petiole and the ten- 
dril, shorter than the leaf, commonly in pairs, 1-3 flow- 
ered; sometimes we find a third, but which we have not 
seen come to perfection with us. lowers of a pinkish buff- 
colour, 1-2 inches across. dither, an orange-coloured ob- 
late ball, formed by a narrow continuous line winding in 
short equal close alternate folds upwards and downwards, 
round a receptacle or knob at the point of the filament, 
The plants in our collections have produced none but bar- 
ren flowers; such as have the stamen only; hence we have 
presumed the species to be dicecious, producing the ferdile 
flowers, those with the pistil, on a distinct plant. 
In Jussieu’s system the genus makes a part of the or- 
der Cucurbitacee or Gourd-tribe: an order of which the 
genera, fronx imperfect definition and inconnexedly assorted 
species, are almost useless, and their revision by a compe- 
tent botanist an urgent want in the science. 
-Bryonra quingueloba is no where mentioned as a plant ever 
known to have been in any european collection; nor can we 
say at what period it was introduced. Mr. Edwards received 
the branch from which the drawing was made from Lady 
Aylesford, by whom the plant was purchased, at the nur- 
sery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. in the King’s Road, Par- 
son’s Green. oe 
The Banksian Herbarium contains a spontaneous speci- 
men, remitted by the late Mr. Masson from the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Increased with ease by cuttings; but the root soon ac-. 
_ quiring considerable bulk, small-sized garden-pots. should 
not be used for the plants. 
a The calyx. 6 The stamen standing on the disk of the corolla. 
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