well-known C. scandens. Mr. Don gives it as a native of 
Guayaquil *, through which country, we believe, Mr. Sxin- 
NER had recently passed previously to his despatching our 
box of treasures from Guatemala; so that probably that 
gentleman, ever on the alert to collect plants that may be 
useful to us, there gathered these seeds. The flowers bear 
a considerable resemblance to those of PeripHragmos. 
Descr. Stems climbing, several feet long, and much 
branched, angular, glabrous. Leaves alternate, each con- 
sisting of three pairs of obovate, shortly petiolated nearly 
opposite leaflets, the base somewhat unequally two-lobed, 
so that the shape is almost panduriform, the lower margin 
fringed with long, delicate hairs, the rest with extremely 
short and minute hairs scarcely visible to the naked eye: 
elsewhere the leaflets are glabrous ; the apex of the young 
leaflets comes to a sharp, recurved point, that of the older 
ones is obtuse ; the lowest pair is so close to the base of the 
petiole, as to resemble stipules ; the petiole itself terminates 
im a much branched, slender, very spiral gendril. From the 
axil of a leafarises a flower-branch bearing two nearly oppo- 
site leaves, and from between these a long, decurved pedun- 
cle supporting asingle flower. Calyx in five, deep, spread- 
ing, broadly-lanceolate segments, the margins recurved 
and ciliated with long, slender hairs. Corolla nearly two 
inches long, yellow-green. The tube rather long and 
straight, the limb of five spreading, acute, nerved lobes. 
Stamens with their filaments arising from the very base of 
the corolla, at their origin very hairy, more than twice as 
long as the corolla, moderately inclined to one side, and 
curved upwards, yellow-green below, upwards reddish : 
Anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Style as long as the 
stamens : Stigmas three, long, slender, twisted. 
_ * Since the above was printed, Professor Don has been so kind as to 
inform me that this has been lately described by De CanDoLLE under the 
name of C. acuminata; and that he has reason to think that the plant 
wae bed by him (Mr. Don) came from Mexico, rather than from Guay- 
