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to a wall, a beam, or trellis-work, with terete dranches, and dis- 
tantly placed opposite petiolated /eaves, in form ovato-lanceolate, 
narrowly acuminate, slightly sinuato-dentate, three-nerved, ob- 
tuse or even truncate at the base; pefdode rather short, thick, 
angled. Racemes peduncled, either axillary, solitary, and short, 
or terminal and elongated, many-flowered, drooping; pedicels 
several, in interrupted whorls, shorter than the flowers, often two 
from the same point, thickened, each with a minute dract at the 
base, and terminated by two very large dracts at the base of the 
flower, half as long as the. tube of the corolla, oblong-ovate, 
convex, gibbous below, with oblique, acute points, striated and 
dotted with minute, black, sessile g/ands ; the upper margins are 
united for nearly their whole length, so that the two form a bifid 
spatha, split open on the lower edge by the time the large hand- 
some flower is fully expanded. Calya little more than the 
slightly expanded turbinate apex of the pedicel, often punctate. 
Corolla, with the twbe campanulate, tawny, gibbous below, con- 
tracted near the base, /imé very large, spreading almost horizon- 
tally, of five subequal rounded lobes of a bright purplish-blue 
colour, very pale beneath ; fawa open, yellow, fading into white at 
the base of the limb. Sfamens four, nearly equal, inserted near 
the base of the tube where the contraction takes place, included. 
Filaments very vouch dilated above the base, curved ; anthers ob- 
long, apiculate, two-celled, the face clothed with very long, spread- 
ing hairs, and each cell at the base has two spreading spurs, 
sometimes both long and equal, sometimes one is nearly obso- 
lete. Ovary broad-ovate, sunk into a large, thick, annular disc, 
as large as the calyx; s/yle as long as the tube of the corolla, 
flexuose and slender at the base, thickened upwards, and expand- 
ing into a trumpet-shaped but two-lobed stigma, of which the 
sides are pressed in on the upper lobe, 
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’ Fig. 1. Lower portion of the corolla, with stamens. 2. The minute calyx, 
with the large thick annular dise and stamens :—magnified. 
