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Malayan peninsula,—we presume so, at least, from the fact of 
our having since received and raised seeds of the same plant 
from Dr. Thomson, of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, collected in 
that region. These have produced fine flowering plants with us ; 
but our drawing was taken from Mr. Ingram’s plant. The 
name was given by Dr. Lindley, in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ 
above quoted, to specimens from Frogmore, which were exhibited 
at the rooms of the Horticultural Society of London in 1856. 
It is a plant of rather rapid growth, and flourishes in the stove, 
either trained against a back wall or beneath a rafter,—flowering 
at various seasons of the year, not unfrequently in early spring ; 
and is really a striking object. 
Descr. A climbing much-branching s/rvd, with the younger 
branches terete and green, glabrous. Leaves opposite, long pe- 
tiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, or sometimes a little 
toothed, three-nerved, reticulated with transverse nerves. -Pe- 
tioles two to three inches and more long, slender, remarkable 
for being incrassated both at the apex and at the base; at the 
apex the thickened portion is nearly terete; at the base the in- 
crassation extends for a greater length, and is flattened or plane 
on the upper side, and even slightly winged. Raceme of flowers, 
both axillary and terminal, sometimes bearing a few flowers, and 
destitute of leaves ; at other times the raceme consists of whorled 
flowers, with a pair of opposite leaves at the base, which are 
smaller than those of the stem. Bracteas of two vaginant leaves 
or large scales, resembling a spatha, open and free at the lower 
edge, adherent by the upper margin, faintly striated; this em- 
braces the lower gibbous portion of the tube of the corolla. Calyx 
very small, cup-shaped, dotted. Corolla very large, pale blue, 
with a yellowish eye. Zude obliquely funnel-shaped, wide at the 
mouth. Limé very large, spreading, five-lobed; lobes rotun- 
date, deeply emarginate, almost bifid. Stamens quite included, 
inserted near the base of the tube of the corolla. Filaments 
broad, subulate, curved. Anthers oblong, apiculate, fringed in 
front, and having two subulate spurs at the base. Ovary sub- 
globose, sunk in a fleshy dise or cup, crenate at its edge. Style 
long, but included within the tube of the corolla; stigma bifid; 
each lobe channelled within. 
Fig. 1. Stamens, including the pistil. 2. Calyx, cu ss disc, and _pistil :— 
ified. y. Pp ? P. 
