gathered in the East Indies by Koenig. The one from 

 which the drawing is made, was raised by Mr. Herbert at 

 Spofforth, from seed which that gentleman informs us came 

 from China, under the vernacular name we have quoted. It 

 is not to be traced in any recorded species, and most probably 

 has been now first introduced into our European gardens. 

 The plant is twining and perennial ; blossoms plentifully and 

 in long succession during the winter, rarely and sparingly 

 during the summer. 



Stem slender, round; branches filiform, spirally streakedj 

 in some parts roughish to the touch, owing to a minute warty 

 or granular efflorescence. Leaves nearly in one rank, wide- 

 set, smooth, oblong, cordate, angularly acuminated, general- 

 ly undivided, at times faintly three-lobed below the middle, 

 often repand and more or less denticulated, about an inch 

 and one third in length, nearly | of one broad at the widest 

 part, middle nerve branching each way horizontally: petiole 

 sometimes nearly equal to the leaf, often much shorter, 

 slender, grooved on the upper side, groove minutely villous. 

 Peduncles solitary, axillary, round, nearly Upright, firm, 

 thicker than the petiole; upper ones shorter than the leaf, 

 terminated by a short trichotomously three-flowered cyme 

 (having generally only one flower with us from the failure of 

 the two of the sides before they expand) ; lower ones 3-4- 

 times longer than the leaves, generally with a 7-flowered 

 cyme, and usually with one flower sessile in the fork of the 

 trichotomy; pedicles 5-6 times shorter than the peduncle. 

 Cali/x campanulate, thickisb, of a subcartilaginous hard- 

 ness, green, very smooth, shot or rayed longitudinally with 

 numerous dark streaks, which are slightly divergent near 

 the top, leaflets broadly cuneate, straight, truncatedly re* 

 tuse with a mucro or point in the centre of the sinus; two? 

 slightly fringed at the upper edge. Corolla yellow, hypo- 

 crateriform, on the outside of the tube and of the plaits of 

 the limb of a reddish tawny colour, streaked with paler 

 lines : tube higher than the calyx, pubescent near the bottom 

 on the inside: limb rotate, about half an inch in diameter^ 

 rounded without the appearance of any angle, Iqbes exceed- 

 ingly shallow emarginated or notched. Anthers ovately 

 oblong. Stigma granulated, globular, elevated mugb s^bove 

 the anthers. 



