Stauntonia latifolia (Wall.) R.Br. ex Wall.

This species, a native of the Himalaya, was introduced in 1840. It is a luxuriant climber, which thrives exceedingly well in the south­western counties, but is not reliably hardly nor so vigorous in colder parts. The flowers are exquisitely fragrant. This species is so closely allied to S. coriacea that it is difficult to find any reliable character by which they may be distinguished botanically, except that in S. coriacea the leaflets appear to be constantly three in number against up to seven, but often only three, in S. latifolia. If the two were to be united, it would be under the name. S. latifolia, which has long priority.

Neither species fruits freely in this country but might do so more freely if the female flowers were hand-pollinated. The plant of S. latifolia at Dartington Hall, Devon, occasionally bears fruits.