1885, which flowered in the Succulent House in the follow- 
ing year, and has continued to do so about midwinter ever 
since. It now forms a climber on one of the rafters of 
the house, about fifteen feet high, with a woody stem 
covered with brown bark. The fragrant flowers are said 
to vary from white to pinkish, and the racemes are some- 
times ten to fifteen-fid. 
Descr.—A tall, slender, sparingly branched, woody 
climber, with pale brown bark; young branches terete, 
green. Leaves scattered, one and a half to two inches 
long, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, — 
penninerved ; base acute, narrowed into a slender petiole. 
Flowers in pendulous or ascending sub-corymbiform, loose — 
racemes, fragrant ; pedicels ebracteate, slender, one half to 
nearly an inch long. Sepals pale green, oblong, obtuse, 
two lateral with thickened dorsal wings. Anthers large, 
those of the longest stamens recurved, tips exserted. Petals 
spathulate, white, limb oblong, longer than the claw. 
Style short, stigma capitate. Pod one to two and a half 
inches long, elliptic-oblong, quite flat, very shortly stipi- 
tate, one- to two-seeded, tipped by a short, straight style; 
valves membranous, delicately veined, septum hyaline. 
Seeds orbicular, flat, about one-eighth of an inch in 
diameter, shortly thickly winged ; F 
contorted, BE as t3 D-H ged; embryo convolute an 
Fig. 1, Calyx-and stamens: 2. to i +4 . $b oe 
we ; 2, top of pedicel and pistil; 3, ripe fruit; 
4, seed; 5, embryo :—all enlarged, except fig. 3, which is at nak size, : Pg 
