to the late Sir Charles Lemon, who had a famous collection 
at Carcleugh, in Cornwall; and it has been long cultivated at 
Kew, where it flowered in January, 1874; and I am indebted 
to Mr. Corderoy for another specimen which flowered with 
him in June; it had six narrower outer segments, four inner, 
and only six stamens. 
Descr. Stems epiphytic, two to four feet long, cylindric, as 
thick as a swan’s quill below, flexuous, branched. Branches 
leaf-like, lower broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse, two inches 
long, petioled, obscurely crenate ; upper three to five inches 
long, narrow lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute, 
obtusely serrate; all of them bright green, thick, and fleshy, 
with a stout costa, and no evident nerves. owers situated 
in the crenatures, two to two and a half inches long. Ovary 
‘half an inch long, cylindric, green, with a few minute scat- 
tered, triangular scales. Perianth bright red-purple, funnel- 
shaped, two inches in diameter; segments eight, ten, or 
twelve, lanceolate, long acuminate, the four or six outer 
narrower and shorter than the inner. Stamens six to eight, 
‘ filaments of unequal length, anthers linear. Stigma with four 
slender papillose rays. Berry red-purple, ovoid or flagon- 
shaped. Seeds very minute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the perianth cut vertically; 2, berry 5: 3, transverse 
section of ditto :—all magnified. 
