seeds and collections of dried plants. M. Imthurnii is a 
vigorous climber, and covers a considerable space on the 
roof of the Palm House. It has long, hanging branches, 
which occasionally flower in autumn; the flowers re- 
sembling those of a Hoya. 
Deser.—A tall, twining shrub. Stems rather slender, 
terete; flowering branches about a quarter of an inch in 
diameter ; internodes shorter than the leaves, pubescent. 
Leaves opposite, on long petioles, rather thick, soft, 
cordate, sometimes constricted in the middle, those of the 
flowering-branches including petiole six to nine inches 
long, the largest four inches broad, abruptly acuminate, 
hairy on both sides, especially on the under surface, more 
or less bullate; veins thick, and raised on the under 
surface. lowers purple, about half-an-inch across, hairy, 
arranged in dense, globular, axillary, very shortly stalked, 
umbellate cymes, one and a half to two inches across; 
pedicels hairy, a quarter of an inch-or less in length. 
Calyz-lobes five, oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the 
corolla-tube. Corolla hairy outside; tube broad, slightly 
inflated, longer than the lobes of the limb; lobes ovate- 
oblong, rounded at the tip, recurved. Coronal-scales five, 
erect, thick, fleshy, ovate, suddenly and obtusely acumi- 
nate, shorter than the staminal column. Pollinia oblong, 
erect, on long stalks. Ovary two-celled ; ovules numerous. 
Fruit unknown.— W. B. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, corona and staminal column; 3, a pair of pollinia; 
4, style and stigma :—all enlarged. 
