of last year, in the cool end of the Succulent House, from 
a plant presented by Messrs. Shuttleworth, Carder, and Co. 
Dzsor. A tall climber. Stem purplish-brown, rather 
stout, pubescent. Leaves four to six inches long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, dark green, glabrous above, pubescent beneath ; 
petiole very short, flattened, twisted. lowers very shortly 
racemose on a terminal rachis, very numerous and densely 
clustered, pendulous, scarlet, except the green ovaries. 
Bracts many or few, whorled, two to three inches long, 
linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces. 
Pedicels two to two and a half inches long, very slender, 
pubescent. Perianth as long as the pedicels, very narrowly 
campanulate ; outer segments linear-oblong, obtuse, with a 
brown spot below the tip on the back; inner one-third 
longer than the outer, elongate-spathulate, obtuse or sub- 
acute. Stamens as long as the perianth; anthers blue. 
Ovary turbinate, five-grooved. Style straight, stigma 
simple.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Anthers; 3, ovary; 4, stigma :—all enlarged. 
