Bignoniacee as with the Crytandracea, in which latter the 
species are usually herbaceous. 
Dzscr. This has a straggling, woody stem and branches, some- 
what climbing, and rooting on the rough bark or among moss, 
villous with short fulvous hairs, or more or less downy. Leaves 
opposite, remote, unequal in size, a small one frequently being 
opposed to the larger one, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, downy, 
acuminate, shortly petiolate, coarsely serrated, entire at the base, 
paler and more villous beneath. Veins pinnated, rather ob- 
scure. Peduncles axillary, solitary, nearly an inch long, bearing 
a solitary pendulous flower ; the apex, beneath the calyx, swollen, 
and having a spathzeform dract on one side, deeply cut into two 
equal lanceolate segments. Calyx deeply cut into five linear- 
lanceolate, erect, downy segments. Corolla an inch and a half or 
nearly two inches long, tubuloso-cylindrical, downy, pale yellow- 
ish-green, the limb short, equal, cut into five, rounded, spreading 
segments. Stamens four, arising from the very base of the tube. 
Filaments as long as the tube of the corolla. Anthers subglo- 
bose. There is a fifth small abortive stamen. Ovary ovate, 
arising from a glandular anxnulus, two-celled, many-seeded. Style 
as long as the corolla. Stigma small, unequally two-cleft. 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open, showing the stamens. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 
4, Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
