by words, and we should have failed to determine cur present 
plant (sent from Rio to the Royal Gardens, by J. Lynd, Esq., in 
1841), were it not that we possess an authentic specimen of /. 
comosum from Chamisso. The A. longibracteatum, Mart., is con- 
sidered by De Candolle to be scarcely distinct from this. Our 
plant is a beautiful climber, and trained to the rafter of a stove 
makes a fine appearance with its copious flower-buds, which look 
like large clusters of hops in September and October, and as soon 
as the bracteas fall, the conspicuous yellow flowers burst forth. 
The species is increased by cuttings. 
Descr. A tall climber, with fruticose, punctato-scabrous stems 
and opposite ovate /eaves, sometimes approaching to a lanceolate 
figure; the petiolules incrassated at their apex. Racemes both 
axillary and terminal, at first so densely clothed with large con- 
cave bracteas as to look like the large aments of the Hop; these 
fall away before the corollas expand, except two lesser bracts upon 
each pedicel, but which, still, are larger than the calyx, and event- 
ually fall away also. Calyx tubulose, five-toothed, with about five 
large glands below the teeth, similar to those on the leaves and 
bracts. Corolla large, handsome, bright yellow, trumpet-shaped, 
the /imé very large, spreading, two-lipped, upper lip of two, lower 
of three, large, rounded, waved lobes. Stamens and style, with 
the two-lipped stigma, included. 
Fig. 1, Bracteoles and calyx (including the pistil), with glands. 2. Portion 
of a leaf with a gland :—magnified. 
