been cultivated, as no other collector has sent it from 
that part of Brazil. 
S. pensile requires a tropical stove, where it grows with 
great rapidity, for the Kew plant, which was received from 
Demerara in 1887, flowered in May, 1888. 
Descr. A tall slender branched unarmed climber; 
branches terete; branchlets pubescent. Leaves two to 
four inches long, ovate or cordate-ovate, subacute or 
obtusely acuminate, quite entire, bright green and shining 
above, paler beneath with brownish nerves; petiole one- 
half to two-thirds of aninchlong. Panicles large, terminal, 
loosely subpyramidal, pendulous, pubescent; branches — 
alternate, distichous, recurved or ascending, four to seven 
inches long, many-flowered; flowers subsecund, shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx one-fourth of an inch long, shortly cam- 
panulate, terete, five-toothed, brown, pubescent. Corolla 
one and a half inches in diameter, bright violet-blue with 
a white star-shaped eye; segments lanceolate with in- 
curved tips, spreading and recurved, pubescent externally. 
Stamens five, filaments of four much shorter than the 
anthers, of the fifth twice as long as the others; anthers 
one-third of an inch long, linear-oblong, straight, erect and 
contiguous, dehiscing by minute terminal pores. Ovary 
glabrous ; style erect, pubescent. Berry globose, the size 
of a large pea, purple, shining —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2 and 3, short and long stamens; 4, pistil :-— 
all enlarged, 
