de Fuego, at an elevation of 8300 feet above sea-level. Our 
plate was drawn from specimens that flowered with Mr. 
Elwes at Cirencester in the spring of the present year. 
Descr. Stems stout, wide-climbing, glabrous. Leaves 
oblong, acute, three or four inches long, about half as broad, 
abruptly narrowed to a short crisped petiole, green and 
glabrous on the upper surface, paler and densely hairy on 
the ribs beneath. lowers up to twenty in a dense umbel, 
with several large ovate leafy bracts ; pedicels slender, 
densely glandulose, rarely bracteolate, always simple, not 
more than an inch anda half or two inches long. Ovary 
triquetrous, six-grooved, glandulose ; perianth-limb an inch 
or an inch and a quarter long ; outer segments oblanceolate, 
obtuse, reddish ; inner segments obovate unguiculate, bright 
yellow, with copious minute spots of brown over the face. 
Stamens and pistil rather shorter than the inner segments 
of the perianth; filaments and style glandular in the lower 
part ; anthers oblong.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, an inner segment of the perianth-limb ; fig. 2, an outer segment, both 
natural size; fig. 8, a stamen; fig. 4, complete pistil, with its inferior ovary :— 
both enlarged. 
