extremely handsome, and very curious, as are the Cero- 

 pegias in general, in the structure of the flowers, which, in 

 this case, represent the head of a snake with a green snout, 

 and eye-like spots above the neck, or narrow part of 

 the tube. It is in many respects allied to our C. vincafolia 

 from the same country, but the flowers are larger and 

 handsomer ; the corollas having a much more inflated base 

 free from spots, a very differently marked limb, and a 

 different form of the corona staminea. It is a ready grow- 

 ing plant, flourishing in a good heat, and it produces its 

 flowers in September. 



Descr. Ste?n twining, slender, herbaceous, terete, gla- 

 brous. Leaves opposite, ovato-cordate, acuminate, slightly 

 hairy and ciliated, with about four, erect, subulate, fleshy 

 glands at the base above the leaf-stalk. Peduncles 

 axillary, purple, clothed with spreading hairs, and bearing 

 an umbel of from four to six, singularly shaped, and 

 singularly coloured^/Zoiuers ; the pedicels have subulate brac- 

 teas at their base. Calyx of five, deep, subulate segments. 

 Corolla two inches long : tube pale yellow-green, remark- 

 ably inflated, and globose at the base, so much so that this 

 is the widest part of the flower, contracted and elongated 

 in the middle, spotted upwards, then again expanding and 

 bearing five segments, which are oblong, broader at the 

 base, erect, connivent, and coherent at the apices one with 

 another; the base yellowish, with large eye-like spots, the 

 upper portion dark green. Corona double orange-yellow ; 

 outer one cut into five, erecto -patent, acuminate but emar- 

 ginate lobes, bearing each three blood-colored spots on the 

 back ; inner of five, erect and straight, connivent, uarrow- 

 linear segments, thrice as long as the outer ones. 



Fig. 1. Double Corona. — magnified. 



