Caprifolium Periclymenum) as growing in the garden at 
Montpellier in 1762. In 1795 Santi described it as a 
distinct species from specimens he saw when on a tour 
in Tuscany. Since then it has been observed at various 
stations on all sides of the Mediterranean and extending 
westwards to Madeira and eastwards to Kurdistan. “Ex-_ 
tending over so wide a range, it naturally presents 
_ varieties, eight such, founded chiefly on the size of the 
leaves and the nature or absence of their indumentum, ~ 
being enumerated by Rehder. 3 
The specimen here figured flowered in the Himalayan 
section of the Temperate House at Kew in August, 1903. 
The plant was purchased from a continental nurseryman 
about ten years previously. The conditions in this 
situation are eminently favourable for it, and its stem has 
attained a diameter of two inches, and its shoots grow 
from six to ten feet in length in a season. These shoots 
bear, for a distance of several feet from the apex, numerous 
short lateral branches terminated by the clusters of 
flowers, and, hanging down from the rafters, present the 
appearance of a graceful cloud of colour. In the open air 
the plant also thrives, but does not flower so freely as 
indoors. It is easily propagated from cuttings. 
Deser.—A lofty, much-branched climber. Stem terete, 
glabrous; branches purple plum-colour when young. 
Leaves obovate or the upper almost orbicular, at least the 
upper pair joined at the base, sparingly pubescent above 
and on the chief nerves beneath, pale green, about two 
inches and a half long arid two inches wide. flowers in 
usually ternate heads terminal on the branches, each head 
about twelve-flowered, borne on a peduncle about one 
inch long, each pair of flowers surrounded by a four-lobed 
involucre, shorter than the calyx. Calye green, one line 
long; teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla at first creamy-yellow, 
finally almost orange ; tube one inch long, tubular funnel- 
shaped; upper lip five lines long, four lines wide, divided 
“about a quarter of the way down into four ovate imbricate — : 
lobes; lower lip oblong, seven lines long, a line and 
a half wide. Stamens much exserted. Style filiform. 
Berries red, not united.—O. H. Wright. 
Fig. 1, lower; 2 and 8, anthers; 4, stigma :—all enlarged. 
