from this country, Hong Kong, and Cape Town. The 
two are very much alike in general characters, and the 
names are sometimes interchanged in gardens. This is 
partly due to the fact that the differences have been mis- 
understood. When in flower there is no difficulty, the 
flowers of C. grandiflora, although somewhat larger, are 
of a lilac-purple, and the staminodes or lobes of the corona 
are very deeply divided into two filiform segments. 
The date of introduction of CO. madagascariensis into 
England is given as 1826, but it has always been rare. Our 
plate was drawn from a plant that flowered at Kew in May 
and June of the present year. It is avery beautiful thing, 
and if it should prove free-flowering, it would well deserve 
a place in a hot-house, as it flowers when quite small. 
Deser.—A climbing, glabrous shrub; branches often 
beset with small, warty excrescences. Leaves shortly 
stalked, leathery, varied in outline from lanceolate to 
almost orbicular, two to four inches long, obtusely acumi- 
nate, rounded at the base, paler beneath ; ultimate veinlets 
very finely reticulated. lowers in terminal cymes, dis- 
tinctly stalked, two inches and a half to three inches 
across. Practs scale-like, falling away early. Calyz-lobes 
ovate, acute. Corolla-lobes longer than the funnel-shaped 
tube, ovate-lanceolate, acute, recurved. Corona-lobes five, 
subulate, attached below the middle of the corolla-tube and 
invisible from the outside. Pollen-masses in pairs in each 
cell, each pair attached to a spathulate appendage. rwit 
composed of two divergent, boat-shaped carpels containing 
numerous small seeds furnished with a cluster of long, soft 
hairs at one end.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, section of the lower part of a flower showing the insertion of the 
corona-lobes; 2, longitudinal section of the androecium; 3, a pair of pollinia 
attached to the scale; 4, anterior view of the same; 5, one of the two carpels 
of which the fruit is composed; 6, a seed :—all except 5 enlarged. 
