A slender evergreen branching sarmentose shrub, climb- 
ing, when it finds the means, to a considerable height, 
which it reaches by the help of the upper leaves, that serve 
as claspers, and twine themselves round whatever suits for 
support. Foliage of a dark shining green, brachiate, qui- 
nately winged, next the panicle often ternate, lowermost 
biternate; /eaflets ovately lanceolate, loosely and irregularly 
serrate at their upper half, three outer ones sometimes con- 
fluent: petioles slender, wiry, elastic. Peduncles axillary, 
opposite, upright, villous, 3-5-flowered, brachiate and 
shorter than the leaves; each pedicle set in the axil of a 
_ simple ovate leaflet, one-flowered, thick, with a bibracteo- 
Jated joint below the middle, Powers coriaceous, sweet- 
scented, of an opaque greenish buff colour, at first cer- 
nuous, afterwards less declined, entirely covered by a short 
close downy pile: petals 4, recurvedly rotate, acute, de- 
ciduous, Pistils held together by a long entangled close 
silky wool with which they are covered. 
A greenhouse plant of easy culture. Propagated by 
layers with the facility common to sarmentose plants. 
Flowers about November, 
A genus comprised in the Ranunculacee of Jussieu. An 
order by which it is the intention of Professor Decandolle 
to commence his arduous, and till now unattempted, enter-. 
prise, “ The System of Vegetables arranged according to 
natural affinity.” An attempt of which the proved talent of 
the author justifies the best expectation. He is now here 
to avail himself of the treasures in the library and herbarium 
of Sir Joseph Banks, made free to science with a munificence 
that has no example; and resorted to from every point of 
the globe with a confidence that has never been indulged 
in vain. 
_ Thedrawing was made from a plant that flowered at the 
greenhouse of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Parson’s 
Green, near Fulham; and we hear that at Messrs. Lee and 
Kennedy’s nursery, Hammersmith, there is another un. 
recorded species of the genus from the Cape of Good 
Hope, which has not yet flowered here, but is expected ta 
do so this summer. | 
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