gratified every one who has seen them. Dried native speci- 

 mens were sent home at the same time with the living 

 plants, and they, as well as the cultivated ones, show, that 

 Mr. Gardner, though he botanized extensively in the same 

 tract, did not meet with it ; and that it is a species unde- 

 scribed even by the authors (Martius and Stadelmeyer) of 

 the " Echites of Brazil," published in the Botanische Zei- 

 tung*. In the excellent work now quoted, it would be 

 placed in their second group of the climbing species. 

 " B. Corolla infundibulif or mi ; calycis laciniis acutis. Sta- 

 mina supra medium tubi inserta." But, in that section, 

 there is not one species that agrees with it. 



Descr. The stems are climbing, and, in the old plants, 

 probably of great length ; branches rounded, glabrous. 

 Leaves in opposite, remote pairs, very large, from four to 

 six or eight inches in length, nearly sessile, elliptical, sub- 

 coriaceous, waved, acuminate, cordate at the base ; above 

 almost glabrous, and strongly marked with deeply im- 

 pressed, reticulated veins; beneath pale-coloured, decidedly 

 downy, especially on the veins. Racemes axillary, of four 

 to six very large and extremely showy flowers. Peduncles 

 elongated, shorter, however, than the leaves. Pedicels 

 about an inch long. Bracteas small, subulate. Calyx 

 small, deeply cut into five slightly recurved, subulate, 

 segments, tipped with red. Corolla between funnel-shaped 

 and salver-shaped : the tube white, spreading upwards ; the 

 limb flat, four inches across, beautiful rose-colour, deeper 

 at the margins of the five, rounded lobes ; and with a very 

 deep star-shaped eye. Stamens inserted above the middle 

 of the tube. Glands two, each two-lobed, at the base of 

 the germen. 



* Beiblatter zur Flora. 1841. Erster Band. 



Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil -.—magnified. 



