stigma pruinosum, oblongum, cylindricum, erectum, basi marginatum, 
fundo subtus plenum, apiculo angusto bifido terminatum, antheris demüm 
agglutinatum. y 
The three plants, enumerated above as varieties of this 
species, come from three different countries; and are repre- 
sented in the Banksian Herbarium by samples included 
under the present title. The subject of our article is clearly 
the same with the Chinese samples collected by Messrs. 
Bladh and Staunton at Macao; and differs from the Coro- 
mandel plant of Roxburgh by a closer foliage and in baving 
the bractes and calycine segments entirely upright instead 
of conspicuously recurved; as also from the Cochinchinese 
plant of Loureiro by longer and proportionately narrower 
calycine segments as well as a longer tapered foliage. 
The three plants are probably specifically distinct; though 
we have contented ourselves by separating them as varieties, 
under names that may be retained or rejected, as subse- 
quent investigation may suggest. 
It does not appear that this singular plant had been 
known in our gardens till now. We saw it first in the hot- 
house of the nursery belonging to Messrs. Colville, in the 
King's Road, Chelsea, where it blossomed this spring, and 
afforded the subject of the present drawing. 
A climbing? shrub: branches opposite, bark brown, mi- 
nutely warted. Leaves opposite, numerous and close-set at 
the upper part of the branches, oblongly or obovately lance- 
olate, deep green, shining: petioles short: stipules within 
the axils of the leaves, in pairs, the one facing the other 
edgeways, small, green, semiovately lanceolate. Flowers 
among the leaves at the ends of the branches, several, 
dichotomously cymose, between straw and cream-coloured, 
two inches long or more; bractes narrow, upright, lan- 
ceolate. Calyx green, campanulate, scarcely + of an inch 
deep, segments 5, upright linear and taper-pointed, chan- 
nelled, nearly of the same shape and size as the bractes; 
hypogynous squamules (small green roundish scalelike ap- 
pendage) 5, interposed between the germen and the seg- 
ments of the calyx (outside the corolla?). Corolla funnel- 
form: tube with the faux about half an inch long narrowly 
turbinate, tube (proper) scarcely longer than the calyx, 
narrow, of one colour throughout, wrinkled and streaked, 
