Tai-mo-Shan, on the mainland of China opposite to Hong 

 Kong, where it was found by Mr. A. B. Westland. The 



Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Ford of the Hong Kong 

 Botanical Gardens for Herbarium specimens, collected by 

 its discoverer, and for a living plant which arrived in 

 1886, and flowered in the Victoria House at Kew in March 

 of the present year. The flowers are produced at the base 

 of the woody stem, as well as on the branches. 



Desce. Stem woody, short ; branches slender, climbing to 

 a considerable height, pubescent. Leaves six to ten inches 

 long, shortly petioled, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, smooth and glabrous above, strongly nerved, pubes- 

 cent and reticulate beneath; base cordate with rounded 

 lobes ; petiole half an inch long, stout. Flowers pendulous, 

 chiefly from towards the base of the plant ; peduncle one- 

 flowered, three to five inches long, and as well as the perianth 

 externally densely hirsutely villous with brown hairs. 

 Perianth-tube two inches long below the very short flexure, 

 cylindric, brown and yellow, part above the flexure shorter, 

 hidden by the appressed perianth-limb, which is six by five 

 inches, broadly rounded-ovate, obtuse anteriorly retuse 

 posteriorly, slightly concave, pale greenish yellow with 

 purple reticulated veins, densely speckled with dark vinous 

 purple all over the centre, except the small white semi- 

 lunar mouth. Staminal column short, subsessile, three- 

 lobed ; lobes shortly broadly oblong, with smooth broad 

 conical tips ; anthers in pairs, each pair surrounded by a 

 densely tomeutose fringe.—/. D. H. 



Fig .1, Interior of perianth-tube, showing the column; 2, column ; 3, hairs of 

 perianth -.—all enlarged. 



