of the New World. Being an animal, however, it does not easily 

 become established in our stoves: yet it is a graceful and an 

 elegant plant, bearing a succession of the pretty dark-eyed cream- 

 coloured flowers, with however scarcely a snliicient mass of foliage 

 to set off the blossoms to much advantage. 



Descr. Stems filiform, much branched, and varying greatly in 

 length, rambling rather than climbing. Leaves alternate, two 

 to three inches long, less than half an inch wide, glabrous, 

 linear-oblong, acuminate, scarcely petiolcd : the base entire or 

 two-lobed, so as then to be sagittate, or sometinu s hastate, and 

 toothed. Peduncle filiform, solitary, two to four inches long, 

 generally longer than the leaf from the axils of which they spring, 

 and for the most part bearing two jknoers, with Blender pedicels, 

 the uppermost flower expanding first. Sepals acuminate. Co- 

 rolla small, scarcely three-quarters of an inch broad, subinfun- 

 dibuhfornu-campanulate, white or cream-colour, with a bright 

 purple eye in the throat. Stamens scarcely exserted. Ovary 

 globose, seated on a fleshy disk, Shjlc filiform; stiama lai 

 two-lobed. 



Fig. 1. Base of a leaf, with its short petiole. -2. \' ww^bd. 



