tenuis, in disco subcrustacea , <id marginem diiple.v diaphami^ snJiintegra, 
undique venis hrunmis, furcatis, distinctis pnlchcrrimt radiala, ad liihnn 
emarginata. Embryo ovatus, conipressus, albus, inciusus in leslu. interiore 
tenaci, opacd, pallidi luted, ah extcriorc omnino libera, ncc etiam intra 
marginem membranaceuvi cxfcnad, ad apicem fuberculo parvo paulultim uni- 
lateruli (chaluza 1\ ad basin infuniculo ipsd longiore temii cmvoluto productd. 
Cotyledons, camogi, compressi, subrotmdi. Radicula parva, obtusUy hilo 
proxima. 
This splendid plant was first raised in 1824, by Mr. 
Tate, of the Sloane Street Nursery, from Mexican seeds 
coiipilitiliucated to him by R. P. Staples^ Esq. Our ^bp^z 
iag ^ms made in Mr, T^te'a Nursery wa July last. 
In Chili it becomes half-shnibby, and climbs all over 
the hedges and bushy plants in its vicinity, which it orna- 
ments with a profusion of lovely vermilion-coloured flowers, 
which appear at almost all seasons of the year. In this 
country its habits have been scarcely ascertained ; it thrives 
in the open border, better than in a greenhouse, but the 
first frost destroys it. Probably the treatment applied to 
Cobaea scandens, would be the most suitable for it. We 
])ossess native specimens, .sent from B|eti<!C8^^,*'liy diir 
friend Dr. John Gillies. 
M. Kunth has expressed some doubts of the capsule 
being really^ unilocular, as that character appeared to be at 
Tariance with the structure common to other Bignoniaceae. 
But it will appear, from the above description, that it is, 
in its earliest state, strictly unilocular with two parietal 
placentae ; if, therefore, the single cell of Bignoniaceae 
were an essential characteristic of that order, Eccremo- 
carpus would not be referrible to it. Let us, however, 
examine the ovarium of one of the commonest species of 
Bignoniaceae, B. radicans. In this plant two fungous round- 
ish placentae issue from the sides of the ovarium, and jut- 
ting out into the cavity, finally meet in the centre, and 
there become united ; now, in Eccremocarpus, these pla- 
centae have precisely the same fungous form, and derive 
their origin from the sides of the ovarium in like manner, 
but they do not extend far enough into the cavity t() 
touch each other, and, therefore, no cohesion takes place, 
between them ; whence the oyarium is uniiocular. 
