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PuysiIANTHUS AURICOMUS. GOLDEN-HAIRED 
PuysiIANTHUs. 
SERRE EE EK EK REEE 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Diaynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—AscLepIaDE&. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cor. campanulata, tubo inflato-ventricoso, limbo 5-fido 
connivente. Columna fructificationis inclusa pentaphylla, 
foliolis tubo stamineo insertis, deinde corolle adnatis, 
sursum liberis cucullatis. Anthere membrana terminate. 
Pollinis masse decem, cereacee, compresso-clavate, in 
cruribus retinaculi deflexis pendula. Stigma biapiculatum. 
Semina comosa. Martius. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Puystanruus auricomus; caule volubili piloso, foliis obo- 
vatis acuminatis basi cordatis, floribus umbellatis pe- 
dunculo petiolis multo longiore, stigmate inappendi- 
culato. Graham. 
I first saw this handsome climber extending across the 
rafters from end to end of a stove in the garden at Hales, © 
near Liverpool, the seat of Biacxsurn, Esq., in Octo- 
ber, 1837. It was covered with blossom, each flower re- 
maining long in perfection. I could not ascertain from 
whence it had been imported, but it is certainly identical 
with Garpner’s wild specimens collected in the province of 
Ceara, Brazil. A cutting from the Hales plant flowered in 
the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in October, 1840; but it 
will never be seen in the same perfection as at Hales, unless, 
as there, it be planted in a border under glass, not kept in 
a pot. 
Descr. Stem woody, with milky juice, twining, densely 
covered with spreading, harsh, yellow hairs. Leaves (three 
to four and a half inches long, two to two and three quar- 
ters broad) petioled, obovate, acuminate, cordate at the 
greatly 
