land as well as of the East Indies. We had no opportunity 

 of describing the specimen we received, after the drawing 

 was taken; but are obliged entirely to Mr. Herbert for 

 what we have to say of the plant. 



Root perennial ; stem sufFrutescent, growing to about 

 three yards in height. Leaves sessile, about an inch and a 

 half long or upwards, decrescent, scarcely the third of an 

 inch broad, enclosing the branch between the lobes at their 

 base. Peduncles solitary, somewhat shorter than the leaf, 

 slender upright, one flowcredj rarely 2 or 3-flowered (sub- 

 villous ?) Bractes two, small, opposite, lanceolate, placed a 

 little above the middle of the peduncle. Flowers straw- 

 coloured, yellower at the plaits of the limb ; tube crimson 

 on the inside ; limb about | of an inch across : stigma green- 

 ish : anthers cream-coloured. 



Cultivated in the stove, where it flowers from June 

 to November, and ripens its seeds, which are of a pale brown 

 colour, and about the size and shape of those of Ipom(ea 

 coccinea. The ends of the branches are clipped in the 

 winter, by which more abundant and stronger shoots 

 are produced in the ensuing summer. 



