north of Natal, and the plant consequently requires tropical 

 heat, which G. Sandersonice does not. 



Descr. A glabrous climber, probably attaining a con- 

 siderable height ; branches terete, as thick as a goose-quill, 

 white mottled with brown, in minutely warted patches. 

 Leave* opposite, two to three inches long, shortly stoutly 

 petioled, oblong-ovate, subacute or obtuse, succulent, pale 

 green with undulate margins that are purplish on the 

 extreme edges. Flowers about three, at the top of short 

 stout lateral peduncles one-half to two-thirds of an inch 

 long, shortly pedicelled ; bracts minute. Sepals small, 

 erect, lanceolate, acute, glandular at the base within. 

 Corolla, two to three inches long ; inflated base narrowly 

 oblong, green, about two-thirds of an inch long ; tuber 

 above the bulb narrowly funnel-shaped, dull green below, 

 striped white and dull brown above; mouth trumpet-shaped; 

 lobes five, clawed, claws separated by a semicircular sinus, 

 each lobe suddenly dilated into a broad triangular flat 

 plate that arches over the mouth of the corolla, white 

 spotted with purple brown, and with purple filaments at 

 the base on each side ; these five coalesce, and form a low, 

 pointed, five-angled, five-furrowed canopy over the opening 

 of the corolla, supported by the five claws. Golumn at the 

 base of the bulb ; outer lobes none, the inner arching 

 inward and meeting form a five-grooved column, above 

 which three short free recurved obtuse tips spread out- 

 wards.— /. D. E. 



Fig. 1, Portion of stem ; 2, sepal seen from within ; 3, base of corolla and 

 Btaminal column ; 4, pollen-masses : — all enlarged. 



