vir crassius stylo continuo, duplo altius calyce, disco proprio viridi duriäs 
carnoso parte angustiori calycis conformi et recondito insidens: stylus eguans 
stamina, albus, filiformis: stigma foliaceum, bipartitum, pallidum, lamellis 
membranosis tenuibus ellipticis cum brevi acumine à pagind interiore oppositis. 
Of this genus, eminent for the beauty of its blossom, 
about 60 species have been recorded, all trees or shrubs 
and many of them climbers. The majority belong to tro- 
pical regions; Virginia and Japan are we believe the 
farthest points to which any recede from the equator. Only 
one species has been discovered in New Holland, and one 
at the Cape of Good Hope; the bulk is indigenous in 
South America. The subject of this article has been re- 
cently received from the Brasils by Lady Liverpool, and 
flowered this autumn in the hothouse at Combe Wood, the 
residence of Lord Liverpool. Ав far as we can trace, the 
species has not been noticed in any publication. On the 
score of ornament there cannot be a more desirable acqui- 
sition for our collections. It grows naturally in the neigh- 
bourhood of Rio Janeiro, and the gardener who raised it 
from seed, thinks that it will be fonnd to be as hardy as the 
tommon Blue Passionflower, which comes from the same 
country, and is known to every one. It spreads itself on 
all sides, and continues to produce large bunches of flowers 
for a long time in succession from the ends of the branebes. 
A climbing shrub, with a reddish brown bark, dividing 
into numerous branches. Leaves opposite, lower ones 
ternate and without tendrils, upper ones conjugate or 
pinnate, with one pair of leaflets, and furnished with ten- 
drils; leaflets smooth, deep green, oblong-ovate with a 
blunt extended point, loosely dotted on both sides with 
minute glands, which are sunk in the surface, distantly 
nerved, about 4 inches long and 2: broad, unequally sided 
and slanting at the base, the younger ones slightly pubes- 
cent at the margin and summit: petioles channelled on the 
inside, the channel being villously edged, smooth as to the 
rest, partial ones shorter than the general one which is about 
an inch long. Tendrils or claspers hardish, spiral, simple 
or trichotomous at the top, herbaceous, inserted at the base 
of the fork of the partial petioles. Flowers terminal, 4-6-or 
more in corymbs, of a vivid orange-vermilion colour; com- 
mon peduncle short, thick, and nearly smooth, pedicles. 
higher than the common petiole, round, firm, upright, 
