The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew are indebted to 

 Messrs. Rollisons of Tooting for the possession of this 

 truly beautiful plant. It seems to have been introduced 

 from Brazil to Paris, and probably by the late lamented 

 M. Guillemin, to the Jardin des Plantes, whence it was sent 

 to Messrs. Rollisons by Mr. Neumann of that establish- 

 ment. Our young plant soon flowered in the winter, 

 December and January of last year, and again it is in high 

 beauty in the present month of May. It is a climber, 

 thriving well in the moist heat of our Orchideous house, and 

 makes a most handsome appearance, if trained about the 

 wire trellices which are now so commonly and so success- 

 fully attached to the pots which contain climbing plants. 

 It has been found by Mr. Gardner in woods of the Corco- 

 vado, Brazil, and is n. 72 (2) of his Collection : and is per- 

 fectly distinct from the N. chloromena, (Mart. Nov. Gen. 

 Bras. v. 3. p. 47. t. 219,) which is n. 5531 of Mr. Gardner; 

 but De Candolle seems to think it possible that the N. 

 corticola, Schrad. (N. ionema Mart.) may be the same, 

 though the colour of the flower is described as very dif- 

 ferent. 



Descr. A soft -wooded, half-shrubby, climbing, and 

 radicant plant ; with opposite, fleshy, elliptical or subovate, 

 petiolated glabrous leaves, entire, or sometimes here and 

 there serrated. From the axils of these leaves the long, 

 slender peduncles, twice or thrice the length of the leaves, 

 hang down, apparently drooping with the weight of the 

 large richly-coloured flowers. Calyx hairy, deeply cut, for 

 more than three-quarters of the way down, into five lanceo- 

 late, coarsely serrated segments. Corolla rich scarlet, ob- 

 liquely protruded between two of the segments, gibbous at 

 the base, inflated at the throat, but there laterally, singularly 

 pinched or compressed. Limb of five short, revolute, lobes. 

 Stamens as long as the corolla. Anthers united. Pollen 

 yellow. Ovary free, oblong, and, as well as the lower part 

 of the style, hairy. On one side, at the base, is a large, 

 fleshy gland. 



Fig. 1. Lower part of the Corolla and Stamens. 2. Pistil and Gland. 

 6. Section of the Ovary -.—magnified. 



