Descr.—A tall, slender climber, with grooved, villously 
pubescent branches, and axillary red tendrils. Leaves 
three to four inches broad, lunately two-lobed, with a 
mucro in the sinus, deeply cordate at the base, pubescent 
_above, tomentose beneath; lobes divaricate, obliquely 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, three-nerved ; petiole about an inch 
long; stipules small, subulate, falcate. Flowers solitary, 
axillary, about two inches broad, rose-red ; pedicels two to 
three inches long, curved, pubescent, jointed one-quarter 
to half an inch below the flower, green below the joint, red 
above it. Calyzx-tube about half an inch long, cylindric, 
hairy, twelve-lobed at the intruded base; sepals narrowly 
linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals rather narrower and paler 
than the sepals. Outer corona much shorter than the 
petals, formed of white, sub-clavate threads of equal 
length ; inner short, lobulate, incurved, white, membranous. 
Ovary hairy.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx-tube cut open, showing the two coronas; 2, portion of inner 
corona ; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary :-—All enlarged. 
