again into a funnel-shaped limb, with lanceolate spreading 
lobes, and have minute petals; whereas /. procumbens has 
leaves without reticulation, has a cylindric corolla-tube with 
linear-oblong lobes which are sharply reflexed on the tube ; 
it has also often shorter petioles than / Colensoi, and is 
apetalous. /. Colensoi may be divisible into two species; one 
more robust with the calyx three-quarters of an inch long, the 
other as slender and trailing as F. procumbens, with the calyx 
one-third to one-half inch long; but this .can only be deter- 
mined by studying the plant in all its states : the larger form 
is possibly only a small state of /. excorticata. 
F. procumbens was introduced into England by the late Mr. 
Williams, of Hendon, many years ago; and again by Mr. J. 
Blackett, of Egham, from whose plant Mr. Burbridge sent me 
an excellent drawing in August last, in which, however, the 
flowers are represented as pendulous. About the same time 
Mr. Kinghorn, of Richmond, brought me a beautiful plant of 
it, from which the accompanying drawing was made by my 
very accomplished friend, J. I". Mogeridge, F.L.S., and which 
is here reproduced by Mr. Fitch. 
Duscr. Stems filiform, trailing, often many feet long. Leaves 
one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, ovate or cordate, 
rarely orbicular, obscurely sinuate-toothed, membranous, 
pale green above, almost white beneath, not reticulated be- 
tween the principal nerves ; petiole filiform, longer than the 
blade. Howers solitary, axillary, erect, pedicels one-fourth 
to one-half inch long. Calyz-limb longer than the pedicel, 
cylindric, rounded but not inflated at the base, pale orange- 
yellow ; lobes spreading, then reflexed on the tube, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, dark purple, green at the base. Stamens in 
the male plant on slender filaments; anthers blue; those of 
the female with short filaments. Ovary ovoid; style in the 
male plant included with a small stigma, in the female 
exserted with a large capitate stigma.—/. D. H. 
Fig, 1, Flower, with corolla laid open :—magnified. 
