numerous, large, yellow, and spotted with red, and the 

 calyx is red : but the yellow is a dull yellow, and the red is 

 a brick red. Still the species deserves a place in every 

 stove. It is one of Schiede's discoveries. He met with it, 

 growing on old trees, near Misautla, and near la Hacienda 

 de la Laguna, in Mexico. It was probably introduced to 

 our English Gardens from that of Berlin, and being readily 

 increased by cuttings or offsets, is becoming common with 

 us. It flowers with us from May to June and July: and 

 though an epiphyte in its native woods, may be readily cul- 

 tivated, and thrives well in a pot of common mould. 



Descr. Stems one and a half to two feet high, thick, 

 succulent, jointed and nodose, hairy, unbranched. Leaves 

 opposite, elliptical-lanceolate, thick, succulent ; on short, 

 rounded petioles, penninerved, the nerves sunk in the up- 

 per surface, prominent and reddish beneath, their margin 

 entire, or remotely and obscurely serrated. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, single-flowered, longer than the petioles, 

 but shorter than the leaves. Calyx red, five-partite, its 

 segments deltoideo-lanceolate, much spreading, and very 

 large. Corolla nearly three inches long, dingy orange 

 yellow, streaked and spotted with dull red ; its lower part is 

 tubular, slightly curved, very gibbous at the base above, 

 the rest two-lipped : lips long, very unequal ; the upper 

 larger, of three lobes, of which the middle is the largest, 

 porrected, the two side ones reflected, the lower deflected, 

 broadly linear, entire. Stamens four, didynamous, a little 

 shorter than the corolla. The anthers connate. Germen 

 oblique, ovate, hairy, with a large transversely oblong 

 gland on the opposite side. Style longer than the stamens, 

 curved. Stig?na bifid. 



Fig. 1. Pistil : — magnified. 



