itself on the thickened midrib and the underpart of the young 
leaves. The stipules are interpetiolar, with a very acute re- 
flected deciduous apex, and at the base forming thickened 
glands, which give a remarkably nodose appearance to the 
axils. The flowers, equal in number to the leaves in each 
axil, and about two inches in length, are pendulous upon 
slender reddish peduncles of the same length. The calyz is 
of a bright scarlet; the tubular part, which is about equal in 
length to the lobes, is slightly contracted in the middle, where 
the petals and stamens are inserted, quite glabrous outside, 
but slightly pubescent within, the upper half being funnel- 
shaped : the border, which is much expanded, is divided into 
four equal, rather fleshy, lanceolate segments, suddenly acute 
at the apex. The petals, convolutely embracing the stamens, 
are cuneate, of a deep purple colour, and almost wholly en- 
closed within the tubular part of the calyx. The stamens, of 
a deep red colour, are filiform, and of considerable length ; 
four being somewhat longer than the calycine segments, the 
other alternate four being of still greater length. ‘The style 
is filiform, somewhat longer than the stamens ; the exserted 
portion is deep red, polished and glabrous ; that within the 
calycine tube is paler, and rather pubescent. The stigma is 
red, polished, clavate, with a four-lobed apex. The berry is 
ovate, of a deep reddish purple. 
‘I was greatly struck with this beautiful species when I 
first met with it in the Organ mountains in 1829, clinging in 
long festoons from a very tall tree, and exhibiting abundance 
of its brilliant flowers. “It was also collected by Mr. Gardner, 
when he first botanized in the same range, (Gard. Collect. 
no. 375); and on my last visit to those mountains I planted 
a cutting, which I succeeded in bringing home, and which, 
although nearly four years old, has only now shewn its first 
blossom. The main stem has attained ‘a length of eighteen 
feet, and it has many accessory branches of nearly equal 
length ; the older stems throughout their entire length ex- 
hibit at each axil the peculiar stoloniform shoots shewn in 
the drawing, and ‘these are sometimes observed also in the 
internodes bursting through the bark. It appears to me 
suite 2 novel species, approaching F. affinis of St. Hilaire, 
but differing in the proportions of its calyx, and in its general 
habit, in which last respect it bears a greater approximation 
