petioled leaves, smaller flowers with larger calyx-lobes, 
and a corolla-tube of less than three inches long. é 
The flowers of L. Iildebrandiana change colour with 
age, which has given rise to strange discrepancies 
in the descriptions of them. Sir H. Collett was 
told that the flowers were crimson, and much used for 
decorating temples. Those of Mr. Moore’s plant are 
described in the. Gardener’s Chronicle, at p. 210, as of 
a brilliant flame colour, and under fig. 58 as orange- 
scarlet. In the Kew plant the buds are white, faintly 
tinged with pink, the fully opened flowers a eolden-buff 
- (as in the figure here given) passing into yellow-brown in 
age. Referring to Mr. Moore, that gentleman kindly 
informs me that at Glasnevin the flowers were of a soft 
yellow when first opened, gradually getting darker, so 
that the fully opened were reddish-orange on the sides 
fully exposed to the light, and almost wholly of that colour 
when they fall off. 
L. Hildebrandiana is a native of the Shan hills, at an 
elevation of about 5000 ft., near Pwehla, lat. 21° N., long. 
97° E., and, as stated above, of Munnepore. 
Deser.—A tall, woody, glabrous climber, with terete 
branches and branchlets. Leaves five to six inches long; 
broadly ovate, oblong or orbicular-oblong, broadly euspt- 
date, bright green above, paler beneath, marked with a few 
distantly scattered brown glands ; base rounded, or shortly 
narrowed into a petiole half an inch long or more; nerves 
four to five pairs, Flowers geminate, on a stout terete 
peduncle about twice as long as the petiole. Bracts very 
short, tooth-like ; bracteoles very minute, ciliolate. Caly®- 
tube oblong, terete; limb very shortly five-toothed. 
Corolla seven inches long; tube four inches, cylindric 5 
lips revolute, upper cuneate, shortly four-lobed, lobes 
with incurved tips; lower narrowly linear. Filaments 
and style very slender; anthers crescent-shaped. Stigma 
globose. Fruit an inch long, ovoid—J, D. H. 
Pe 1, Top of peduncle, with bracts, bracteoles, and an ovary; 2, top of 
ament and anther; 8, top of style and stigma :—AUl enlarged. 
