Only one has previously been figured in this work, M. cordi- 
folia, Mart. t. 3202, for M. micans, Poepp. & Endl. t. 5495, 7 
is only a robust form of that species. “4 
Desey.— A slender, much-branched, more or less puberu- 
lous climber. Leaves two to six inches long, shor 
petioled, ovate or oyate-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-scah 
lous and bright green above, paler beneath, with 
tomentose nerves; stipules very small, broadly ovat 
Flowers axillary and terminal, tetramerous ; pedicels about: 
as long as the corolla. Calyx-tube small, turbinate, tome 
tose; lobes ovate or oblong, acute, reflexed, gree 
Corolla-tube three-quarters of an inch long, eylindr 
terete, dilated towards the base, hispid with scarlet hai 
except towards the apex, which is naked and golde 
yellow; lobes very short, broadly triangular, 
‘sessile in the middle of the tube of the coro 
a ring of hairs. Style slender, stigmas 
. . * 
‘Fig. 1, calyx-tube, tek, | cris sea stigmas; 2, section of corolla with — 
anthers; 3, hairs of the surface of the ila ull enlarged. 
