species of the beautiful genus Aischynanthus, whose stems 
cling to such surfaces, and are said to maintain themselves 
by aerial roots, like those of our ivy. In our gardens several 
have now been established, not however under the names 
that properly belong to them, but with such as error or 
caprice have dictated. This, for instance, that in the gardens 
rejoices in the name of the ‘‘branching,’”’ (ramosissimus) is 
not the species so named by Dr. Wallich, which has larger 
calyxes and smaller corollas; neither is it that which Dr. 
Roxburgh called ‘ the parasitical,” from the forests of the 
Garrow hills, as some will have it; for that species has 
flowers ‘‘ large, pendulous, crimson-yellow, approaching in 
shape and size to those of Digitalis purpurea,” our Foxglove. 
It appears, on the contrary, to be a well marked species, 
distinct from all enumerated by Dr. Wallich, of each of which 
I possess authentic specimens. No doubt it is a native of | 
India, but from what part, or when introduced does not 
appear. .The figure was made from a plant in the possession 
of Mrs. Lawrence, in June 1839. Since that time the colours 
have improved in richness, and much of the yellow has been 
replaced by deep and vivid crimson. 
The true Zschynanthus parasiticus is probably the Aisch. 
grandiflorus of the gardens. 
A stove plant, requiring a strong heat and damp atmo- 
sphere during the growing season. 
It is cultivated best when fastened to a large piece of 
rough stick, placed in the pot, the remaining space in the 
pot being filled up with a light mixture of leaf mould, sandy 
peat, and a small portion of loam. 
It strikes freely from cutting, and is one of those plants 
which seem to have no particular time of flowering, which 
depends more on the time the plants are rested than the 
season. 
