Tas. 6763. 
DRYMONTA marmorata. 
Native of Guiana ?. 
Nat. Ord. GesyERaAcEx.—Tribe CyRTaNDRER. 
Genus Drymonta, Mart.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1007.) 
Drymonia marmorata; glaberrima, caule crasso obtuse 4-gono, foliis amplis longe 
petiolatis elliptico-ovatis utrinque subacutis erenulatis supra inter nervos 
impressos bullatis griseo-marmoratis subtus fusco-rubris costa nervisque crassis, 
petiolo crasso elongato, floribus magnis fasciculatis crasse pedicellatis, sepalis 
foliaceis amplis ovatis crenatis nervosis roseo-purpureis, corolla flave tubo 
breviter exserto limbi lobis concavis fimbriatis, filamentis insigniter tortis, 
glandula hypogyna solitaria. 
D. marmorata, Hort. Bull; Retail List, 1884, p. 43. 
This superb plant belongs to a tropical American genus, 
the species of which are imperfectly known, and which may 
be expected to yield many species of botanical interest and 
horticultural value. About fourteen kinds are supposed to 
exist in European herbaria, but these, owing to their 
succulent habit, are almost uniformly so badly preserved 
_ that it is not possible to say whether the plant here figured 
is amongst those I have examined. ‘The only species 
hitherto figured in a work on British garden plants is the 
D. bicolor, of the West Indies (the D. villosa, t. 4866, 
and D. punctata, t. 4089, are species of Episcia), which 
flowered at Knight’s Nursery, in the King’s Road, in 1836, 
and is represented in the “ Botanical Register ” (1838, t. 4), 
and which differs from this in foliage and flowers, and has 
little to recommend it for culture. The twisted filaments 
of D. marmorata are a very singular character; I am not 
aware that it has been observed in any other species of the 
genus. : 
The species of Drymonia are, in so far as they are 
known, all scandent, climbing on damp rocks and tree- 
trunks by means of long aerial roots thrown out from the 
internodes of the stem, which adhere to the support. This 
JULY Ist, 1884, 
