as specimens, from the Organ Mountains of Brazil. It was 

 first detected in the province of Rio Janeiro by Pohl, and 

 figured by him in his splendid work on the Plants of Brazil. 

 The colouring being done from a dried individual, that 

 of the flower is., probably, inaccurate. The length of the 

 peduncle I find to be highly variable : for whereas the dried 

 native specimens sent home by Mr. Gardner (his n. 465) 

 exhibit them as long as, or even longer than, the leaves ; 

 in our flowering plant, raised from his seeds, the peduncles 

 are scarcely more than half the length of the leaf. The 

 stems are long and trailing rather than climbing, and should 

 be fastened to wire trellice, when the plant makes a hand- 

 some appearance. Ours flowered in January, 1823, and 

 that of the Glasgow Botanic Garden about the same time. 

 Descr. Shrubby. Stems scandent, rounded, glabrous, 

 as is the whole plant. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, 

 three to four inches long, ovato-acuminate, sharply denticu- 

 lated, of a thin and membranous texture. Peduncle axil- 

 lary, single-flowered, varying much in length, sometimes 

 considerably exceeding the leaves, flexuose. Flower large. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, short ; its five segments linear-subu- 

 late, spreading, entire. Corolla nearly three inches long ; 

 the tube contracted near the base, slightly enlarged up- 

 wards, curved, dark purplish-red, the segments yellow. 



