figured, which flowered with them in April of the present 
ear. 
? Descr. A woody perfectly glabrous slender climber, 
ascending trees to a height of forty to fifty feet; branches 
woody, angular, with pale yellowish bark, wood very hard. 
Leaves four to six inches long; leaflets three-quarters to one 
and a half inches long; sessile, usually five pairs and an odd 
one, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute obtuse apiculate or 
emarginate, quite entire or serrulate, base equal or oblique, 
coriaceous, nerves very inconspicuous ; petiole grooved on the 
upper surface, sometimes faintly winged between the leaflets. 
facemes terminal, pendulous, 6—10-flowered, peduncle short 
or long; pedicels slender; bracts small, linear-subulate. 
flowers one and ahalf to one and three-quarters inches long, 
Calyz green, campanulate, shortly 5-lobed; lobes triangular, 
acute. Corolla scarlet; tube rather ventricose ; lobes small, 
rounded, toothed, hairy inside towards the margins. Stamens 
four, inserted towards the base of the corolla-tube, filaments 
slender, hairy at the base; anthers oblong-linear, acute, those 
of the two longer stamens exserted, and of the shorter in- 
cluded. Disk elevated, cupular. Ovary flagon-shaped, glabrous, 
narrowed into the stout style; stigma of two oblong lobes ; 
cells two, with two placentas inserted on the septum in each; 
ovules very numerous. Capsule 2-valved, three to four inches 
long, narrowly elliptic-oblong; valves coriaceous with a 
removable papery endocarp. Seeds not seen.—J. D. H. : 
Fig. 1, Flower with corolla removed; 2. corolla laid : 3, anther; 4 
ovary and disk :—all magnified. ee Hs 
