flower for many months on the rafters of the Cactus-house 
last winter. - ce 
Descr. Stem wide-climbing, moderately stout, terete, 
pubescent. Leaves laxly disposed, spreading, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, moderately firm, pubescent 
beneath, reaching a length of half a foot, resupinate at 
the base. Umbel dense, simple, many-flowered, half a 
foot in diameter; bracts small, ovate ; pedicels pubescent, 
an inch or an inch and a half long. Perianth narrowly 
funnel-shaped, bright yellow ; outer segments oblanceolate- 
oblong, obtuse, an inch and a half long, unspotted, more 
or less tinged with red-brown on the back ; inner segments 
half an inch longer, bright yellow with minute spots on 
the face, with a broad truncate apex, with a small cusp in 
the middle, narrowed gradually into a slender claw. 
Stamens nearly as long as the inner segments of the peri- 
anth ; anthers, oblong, small. Style slender, with three 
spreading cusps at the stigmatose tip.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, pistil :—all 
enlarged. 
