from Nicaragua to Peru, Guiana and Brazil, and from 
sea-level in Nicaragua to 3,000 feet in Colombia, where 
Lehmann (n. 1268) observed stems forty feet long. 
In the Kew Herbarium there are dried specimens of 
flowers of this species from Panama (Fendler, 118) fully 
six inches across. 
Descy.—A tall shrubby climber similar to P. quadri- 
glandulosa, Rodsch. (Tacsonia sanguinea, DC., Bot. 
Mag. t. 4574), but differing in the less diversified foliage, 
large coloured bracts and the deeper colour of the 
flowers. Stems slender, tomentose, as well as the 
leaves, when young. Leaves petiolate, at length coria- 
ceous, glabrescent, usually deenly three-lobed, some- 
times with two additional small, basal lobes, cordate at 
the base, the largest six to seven inches in diameter ; lobes 
ovate-oblong, acute, coarsely crenate-dentate or only — 
ng, 
Flowers 
Tube about half an inch 
Sepals similar to the peta 
with a short, green, dorsal hc 
Outer corona filamentose, in three s¢ 
first series free, crimson, half as 
filaments of the second series also 
outer or first series; filaments of 
united in a tube to abo rT 
than the second or 
corona membranous, - 
flower-tube, deflexed, anc 
short tube, fringed at tl ) corona (or honey- 
secreting disk) consisting of small, dentate scales. Gynan- 
drophore (column bearing the stamens and ovary) about 
two inches long, green, spotted with crimson. Anthers 
green. Ovary glabrous, green; styles short, crimson; 
stigmas large, circular, compressed. Fruit unknown.— 
ep, ten-furrowed. 
petals ; 
an the 
forming a very 
W. B42. 
_ Fig. 1, a bracteole; 2, a section through the coronas ; 3, a portion of the 
intermediate corona; 4, a portion of the inner corona or disk; 5 and. 6, ventral 
and dorsal view of an anther :—all enlarged. =< ; ee 
