A native of Nepal, and lately introduced we believe by 
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire from India to the stoves 
of our Botanic Gardens. 
Weare indebted for the noble specimens here figured to 
Mr. Saneton, Nurseryman, Kirkaldy, in whose hothouse it 
flowered in great beauty in September, 1840. The stems 
were about two feet high, scarcely tall enough to exhibit 
the scandent character. It succeeds well if planted in pots, 
though in its native country it is an epiphyte. : 
Descr. Stems creeping, rounded, herbaceous, (at least n~ 
the younger ones and branches, ) succulent, nodose. Leaves 
opposite, four to five inches long, lanceolate, acuminated, 
rather obscurely serrated, of a texture between coriaceous 
and carnose, obsoletely penninerved, quite glabrous, petio- 
lated ; petiole short, rounded, thick. Flowers in lateral, or 
usually terminal, bracteated, umbels, drooping, very showy. 
Peduncles short. Calyx oblong, glabrous, rather fleshy, 
deeply five-lobed, the lobes ovate acute, nearly equal. 
Corolla two and a half to three inches long, rich orange- 
scarlet, clothed with fine, somewhat glandular down. Tube 
long, inflated upwards, curved, the mouth contracted ; the 
limb two-lipped, upper lip with two projecting lobes, lower 
with three patent lobes, each lobe with a deep line down the 
middle. Stamens four perfect, didynamous, and one minute, 
abortive one. Filaments much exserted. Anthers of the 
two pairs oblong, two-celled, each pair conjoined by their 
tips, eventually separating. Ovary linear, surrounded at 
the base by a glandular ring: style white, thick, filiform : 
stigma capitate, formed of two plates. 
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Fig. 1. Lower portion of the Corolla, with the Stamens, 2. Calyx laid 
open, showing the annular Disk and Pistil:—magnified. 
