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At all points it presents a façade grim and precipitous, here and there enamelled by spots and streaks of verdure, wherever ledge or crevice gives plants of the scandent kind an opportunity to strike root.

Botanical Description.—A vigorous plant with scandent stem 2–4 meters long, the more recent growth woolly.

Stems are densely tufted, branched, geniculately ascending, erect or the branches scandent, solid, smooth and polished, 1 to 7 feet.

It is a stout, scandent, evergreen shrub, which strongly resembles the myrtle.

The other is a curious, leafless, scandent, monocotyledon.