of a group of islets off the coast of California, near 
Los Angeles, in lat. 33°-34° N., and Guadalupe Island, 
upwards of two hundred and fifty miles further south, and 
one hundred and fifty from the coast of Lower California. 
A plant of C. macrostegius was, in 1896, presented by 
W. HE. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Queenstown, to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, where, being planted against a wall 
in the Herbaceous ground, it flowers freely throughout the 
Summer months. 
Descr.— A slender, climbing, glabrous undershrub, with 
brown stem, and long, twining, pale green, annual 
branches. Leaves very long-petioled, four to five inches 
long and broad, ovate or deltoidly cordate, with a deep 
rounded sinus at the base, obtusely acute or acuminate, 
margins recurved, undulate and coarsely crenate, the basal 
lobes sometimes lobulate, light green above, paler beneath, 
palmatinerved at the base, lateral nerves three to five 
pairs, nervules loosely reticulate; petiole up to five inches 
long, very slender. Peduncle up to ten inches long, slender, 
terete, puberulous upward, bearing at the top a pair of 
large, hemispheric, membranous, green bracts, which 
enclose one to three sub-sessile flowers. Calya-segments 
one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, narrowly oblong, - 
truncate, retuse, cuspidate. Corolla white, tinged with 
pink ; tube broadly funnel-shaped ; limb two and a half to 
three inches in diameter. Ovary hispidly hairy. Stigmas 
linear, terete, obtuse.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx, style, and stigmas; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—All enlarged: 
