ing to the uppermost light ; and they produced their bright 
orange-red blossoms in the month of May,* 1837. In its 
native country, according to Mr. Tween, it is annual: 
with us, probably from having been sown so late in the 
Season, it is certainly biennial. ‘There is every reason to 
believe that either by seeds or cuttings this fine species may 
be perpetuated. 
Descr. Hispid and stinging, more especially the stem. 
Stems ten to twenty feet long, slender, climbing. Leaves 
petiolate, opposite, pinnate, especially the lower ones, with 
from five to several pinne, which are ovato-lanceolate inciso- 
pinnatifid and serrated ; the upper leaves (here represented) 
are bipinnatifid, and much shorter than the lower ones. 
Peduncles very long, axillary, single-flowered. Germen 
inferior, cylindrical, hispid, spirally twisted. Calycine leaves 
linear-subpinnatifid, spreading. “Petals five, large, exter- 
nally hispid, cucullate, and compressed laterally, broad at 
the base, and scarcely unguiculate. Stamens in five bun- 
dles, lodged inthe hollow of the petals, from which they 
rise up at intervals to fertilize the stigma. Anthers pale 
reddish-yellow. Nectariferous scales five, downy, yellow- 
green, alternating with the bundles of stamens, cucullate, 
bearing each three outer short, dark purple segments, and 
two long, subulate inner ones, which curve gracefully, all 
meeting over the top of the stigma. Germen compressed, 
obtusely five-lobed. Style somewhat subulate. Stigma a 
mere point. Fruit two to three inches long, cylindrical, 
bursting in five, spirally twisted valves. 
Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Pistil, 
: 3. Inner view of a nectariferous Scale. 4. 
Side view of the same i—magn 
Yied. 5. Fruit:—nat. size. 
* Since the above was written, plants which have been put in the open 
border, and trained against a wall, have flowered in the highest perfection, 
and produced fruit abundantly ; not suffering from the frosts till the month 
of November had set in, 
