works, and have been induced to publish the present figure 
for that reason. 
On the first appearance of the plant in the gardens of 
Europe, it attracted much attention by the curious trans- 
itions of a corolla, opening in the morning from green 
to white, about noon beginning to redden, in the evening 
deepening to a full crimson, then quickly fading. 
_ Drawn last November three years, in the hothouse of 
Mr. Vere, at Kensington Gore. 
An arboreous shrub, with a stem 8 or 9 feet high, 
and 2 or 3 inches in diameter. Ferrari, who has allotted 
several fine engravings and many pages of description to its 
illustration, likens the leaves to those of the Vine for'size, to 
the Fig-tree for hue and surface, to the Ivy for the angular 
incisure of the circumference. It should be observed, that 
when he says the seeds came from the West Indies, he men- 
tions its appellation as being Fuyo, which is its vernacular 
one in its native Japan. 
