acuminated, parted by obtusely cornered simises, side-ones 



divergent, middle one the largest: petiole about twice 

 shorter, jointed at the base, usually bearing 4 small ovate 

 glands, hollowed at the top: stipules caducous, upright, 

 ovate, acuminated, veined, I of an inch long more or less, 

 smooth, mucronatC;, slanting and uneven-sided at the base, 

 floral ones reddish: tendrils simple, spiral, axillary. Flowers 

 in pendulous racemes at the ends of the branches, hypocra- 

 teriformiy stellate, of a rosy crimson colour, 4-5 inches in 

 diameter, without scent: each raceme remotely many (9-13)- 

 flowered, simple, having stipules in the place of leaves 



and partially tendrils, 7-9 inches long; lower peduncles 

 two together, one above the other, tipper ones single, about 

 an inch long, round, spreading, with a joint not far below 

 the calyx: involucres three-leafletted, at the joint below 

 the flower, about even with the tube of the flower, caducous, 

 leaflets subsessile, ovate, acuminated, veined, &c. in fine 

 very like those of the stipules. Calyx (while closed clavately 

 oblong, 5 -cornered and deeply winged): tube cylindrical, 

 fleshy and firm, about I of the length of the limb, with a 

 diameter of about half its own length, obsoletely lO-streaked, 

 greenish below, with a slightly protuberant circle of 5 conti- 

 guous bosses at the circumference of the bottom, dinted un- 

 derneath; segments far asunder, thin, navicular or boat- 

 shaped, narrow, transversely bidentate at the end, one tooth- 

 let being the continuation of the outer cuticle, the other of 

 the inner, with a broad thin ventricosely deepened wmg at 

 the keel. Petals of the corolla placed at the edge of the tube 

 of the calvx, and §^ smaller than its segments, lanceolate, 

 flattish. Crown radiated, triple, several times shorter than 

 the calyx; outer one of two ranks, with alternating out- 

 spread radii placed at the foot of the petals, outer rank of 

 filiform fleshy blunted rays, particoloured purple and white. 



of small stumps resembling tubercles 



inner 



ated within and a little below the mouth of the tube of 

 the calyx, of the lining of which it is the continuation, 

 of only a single row, convergent, rays membranous, filiform, 

 greenish white, clavately capitate, blood-red at the top. 

 Operculum (or lid of the nectary) greenish white, double ; 

 the upper one placed on the outside of the lower one a httle 

 behind its margin, upright, cylindrical, of nearly the shape 

 and dimensions of the cavity of the tube of the calyx, 

 membranous, plaitedly streaked, dentately cleft, teeth con- 

 vergent, glandularly edged and obliquely truncated inwards, 



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