the small calyx and large anthers. I. erianthum, Decne., 

 was first discovered by Hartweg between the villages of 

 Yilleta and Guaduas, in the Province of Bogota, and the 

 species was described from dried specimens sent by him 

 to the Royal Horticultural Society of London. There are 

 also specimens in the Kew Herbarium collected by the 

 late Dr. J. Triana in the same Province, at an elevation 

 of two thousand four hundred metres, or nearly eight 

 thousand feet. It is a handsome, free-growing plant, and 

 the specimen from which the plate was prepared was 

 cultivated and presented to Kew by Mr. R. I. Lynch, the 

 Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. It flowered in 

 March of the present year. 



Descr. — A robust, erect, herbaceous plant, two to four 

 feet high, with underground scaly rhizomes, and thick, 

 more or less fleshy stems and leaves, more or less clothed 

 with soft, fulvous hairs. Scales of the rhizomes crowded, 

 fleshy, orbicular, compressed, crimson. Leaves opposite, 

 on long petioles, ovate-lanceolate, including the petioles 

 four to six inches long, acute, cuneate at the base, some- 

 times slightly rough on the upper surface and woolly 

 beneath; midrib and primary nerves thick and con- 

 spicuous. Flowers one and a half to two inches Ion a-, 

 velvety, orange-red or cinnabar, clustered at the axils of 

 the upper leaves, pendulous on bractless pedicels of about 

 the same length. Calyx small, dark red, equally five- 

 lobed; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla slightly curved and 

 ventncose; limb almost equally five-lobed ; lobes flat, 

 rotundate, about a quarter of an inch across, the three" 

 lower spotted. Stamens four, didynamous, included in the 

 corolla; filaments filiform, glabrous, attached near the 

 base of the corolla; anthers glabrous, connivent in pairs. 

 btammode minute, subulate. Dish of five reniform glands. 

 Ovary densely villous at the top ; style pubescent, slightly 

 recurved at the tip; stigma small, bilamellate.— W. B. 1L 



Fig. 1, portion of calyx, disk and gyn£eceum; 2, poition of corolla tube 



