A handsome stove plant, discovered in the year 1815 by 
Mr. Attan Cunntnenam and Mr. Bowie the King’s Bota- 
nical Collectors, in Brazil, and by them sent to the Royal 
Gardens at Kew. I am indebted to Mr. Arron for the fine 
specimen here figured. The Genus must remain doubtful, 
until we have the opportunity of examining the fruit. Mr. 
Cunnincuam observes the ovary to have “ two cells, and 
each cell to contain many ovules, which appear evidently 
to indicate that the seeds in the mature fruit are enveloped 
in a soft pulp ;” and he agrees with me in thinking that for 
the present, it is best referred to Ranpia,. 
Descr. A shrub of slender habit, “‘ destitute of spines 
(in cultivation), with opposite branches, and clothed with 
glabrous, brown bark: bearing the leaves at the extremity 
of long, straight shoots, so that they appear clustered. But 
however closely they are placed, they are opposite, oblong, 
but broader upwards, acuminate, membranaceous, waved, 
situated on rather short stalks, glabrous every where except 
on the midrib and nerves beneath, where there is a slight 
degree of downiness from minute, appressed hairs. Sti- 
pules opposite, large, membranaceous, imbricated, oblong, 
and slightly acuminated. The flower is large, handsome, 
solitary, terminal upon a branch that has become axillary 
by innovations from beneath it. Calycine segments half 
an inch long, spreading, spathulate, somewhat leafy. Tube 
of the corolla very long, cylindrical, and green for the 
greater part of its length, moderately dilated and yellowish 
above, the limb spreading, or slightly recurved, of five large, 
obovate, yellow-buff-coloured seginents. Anthers linear, 
sessile, situated just at the mouth of the corolla. Style 
filiform, as long as the tube of the corolla; Stigma large, 
clavate, yellow, exserted. 
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* Apex of a Flowering Branch, with the lower part of a Flower. 2. Up- 
per part of the Corolla, laid open to show the Stigma and Anthers. 3. 
Anther: magnified. = oA 
