_ several feet long, and when covered with the deliciously sweet- 
scented white blossoms, have a very elegant appearance. 
The specimen here figured flowered in the Cactus House at 
Kew, in July of the present year. 
Descr. Branches leafless, long, slender, glabrous, about 
the thickness of a goose-quill, remotely forking, pendulous 
or loosely climbing. /owers greenish-yellow, one-third of 
an inch in diameter, in close 8—12-flowered sessile lateral um- 
bels. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the flower, hoary- 
pubescent. Calyx very small acutely 5-toothed. Corolla 
rotate, lobes ovate-oblong glabrous. Outer corona 10-cre- 
nate, inner of five fleshy erect segments shorter than the 
anthers. Stigma obtusely apiculate—J. D._H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced view showing general habit of the plant; 2, flowering 
branch :—nat. size ; 8, flower ; 4, gynostegium and corona; 5, pollen masses : 
—magnified. 
