specimen in 1882, and it was figured in the “ Belgique 
Horticole”’ of 1871. 
The Kew plant was grown against a flat board in the 
Begonia House, and flowered in September. 
Descr. A tall climbing undershrub, with soft thick 
herbaceous branches, all over softly pubescent; stem and 
branches rooting copiously into its supports. Leaves in 
rather distant and most unequal deep-green pairs; the 
larger four to eight inches long, petioled, broadly obliquely 
rounded-ovate, subacute, irregularly obtusely serrate, rather 
fleshy; base cordate with the two sides of the leaf appressed 
at the insertion of the petiole, which is one to four inches 
long, stout and terete; smaller leaf usually reduced to a 
green sessile auricle half an inch long or longer, appressed 
to the stem; but sometimes larger and petioled. Pedunele 
axillary, one to two feet long, pendulous, terete, brown. 
Flowers in an umbelliform corymb, crowded, pedicels 
half an inch long, ascending; bracts small, lanceolate, 
green. Calyx suberect, a third of an inch long, green, 
acutely five-toothed. Corolla one inch long, scarlet ; tube 
curved outwards, with five small tufts of hairs beneath the 
stamens near the base within; limb nearly symmetrical; 
lobes oblong, tips rounded, two upper rather the longer 
and nearer together. Stamens four, inserted below the — 
mouth of the corolla, filaments subequal slender; anthers 
oblong, brown, touching in pairs.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style and stigma; 2, corolla laid open; 3, tuft of hairs from 
the base of the tube of the corolla; 5, anther; 6, section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
