but should think from the botanic garden of Calcutta, 
now become the depository from which the plants of the 
most distant and sequestered quarters of India are daily 
transmitted to this country. 
The drawing was made at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 
vill, in the King’s Road, Chelsea; where the plant is cul- 
tivated in the hothouse and flowers about October. We do 
not believe that it is yet in any other collection. 
The genus Ciematis has been remodelled by M. De Can- 
dolle in four sections or sub-genera, under the titles Flam- 
mula, Viticella, Cheiropsis, and Athragene; comprising 
together 83 ascertained species, and 3 doubtful ones; by 
some one or other of which its type is disseminated over 
nearly every part of the globe. 
Hedysarifolium is a suffrutescent evergreen climber : 
branches roundish, thinly sprinkled with very fine soft hairs. 
_ Leaves decussately opposite, with wide intervals between 
the pairs, outspread, ternate: common petiole purplish, 
slightly hairy, an inch and a half long or more, sometimes 
" (especially in the leaves next the flowers) tendril-like and 
prehensile ; eaflets coriaceous, cinereously green, petioled, 
ovately oblong, entire, taper-pointed, 3-nerved. Panicles 
terminal and axillary, pendulous, elongatedly thyrsiform, 
many-flowered, branchlets stiff, decussately opposite and wide 
apart: pedicles slender villous, bearing two small opposite 
abortive buds below their middle. Flowers white, furred 
on the outside, about + of an inch in diameter. Petals 4, 
ovally oblong, equal, obtuse, cruciately rotate, caducous. 
Stamens cream-coloured, upright, about 4 shorter than 
the petals, many, smooth: filaments compressedly filiform : 
anthers of the same colour, linearly oblong, upright with a 
short obtuse point and a flattish receptacle. Pistils longer. 
than the stamens, greenish ; germens with long upright hair; 
styles thrice shorter than these, bare, recurved and spread- 
ing. 
