Plumier’s figures. But it is clear that this his opinion did 
not amount to conviction, or he would have insertedthat 
species in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, where 
our plant is not to be found under any name. In regard to 
ourselves, a comparison of the plant itself with Plumier’s 
figure, has proved that the two are essentially distinct; the 
leaves in capsularis are cordate at the base, not rounded as 
here, the lobes obliquely truncated much shortened and di- 
varicate as in rubra (see above vol. 2. tab. 95) without any 
trace of the two parallel rows of small eye-like glands so 
conspicuous in those of tuberosa. ‘That species appears in 
fact to be altogether much nearer to rubra than to the pre- 
sent. Punctata, for-which our plant seems to have been 
sometimes mistaken, is widely different. It may be well to 
mention, that Mr. Dryander directs, in the above-mentioned. 
note, that the synonym adduced to capsularis by Willdenow 
from Miller’s works should be expunged, as the prototype 
specimen in the Banksian Herbarium shows that excellent 
horticulturist to have intended a different species; one 
nearer to oblongata than to either capsularis or rubra. 
Tuberosa is native of the West Indian Islands, and was 
introduced many years ago. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Col-. 
yille, in the King’s Road, Chelsea; where the plant flowers 
abundantly for a long time in succession, and proves a very 
desirable ornament for the hothouse. : 
A high climbing smoothish shrub, with tuberous roots. 
Branches compressed, angularly fluted. Leaves oblong, 
twolobed with a small awned segment sometimes a mere 
awn in the fork of the division, rounded at the base, three- 
nerved, larger ones six inches long, four broad, sometimes of 
one colour, sometimes paler at the disk, young ones fre- 
quently of a liver-coloured brown, studded within the 2 
lateral nerves, with a double row of small white glandular 
eye-like dots pitted in the centre, surrounded by a brown: 
rim, the two nearest the base of the leaf larger than the rest, 
all filled at first with a crystalline liquid, /obes cuneate and 
taper-pointed generally parallel sometimes diverging and 
shortened : petioles scarcely exceeding half an inch in length, 
glandless:. stipules small, linearly subulate, often bent fal- 
eately and reflexed so as to embrace the branch: tendrils 
simple. Peduncles in pairs, filiform, stiffish, elastic, one- 
