glabrous. Leaves opposite, on short thick petioles, generally 
obovate, sometimes ovate, acute, penninerved, entire, of a dark 
rather glossy green, thickish and somewhat fleshy. Racemes 
terminal, thyrsoid, of many large yellowish-white or cream- 
coloured flowers, having often a tinge of blush. Pedicels op- 
posite, subtended by a pair of subulate connate dracteas and a 
pair of smaller ones on the pedicel itself. Calyx naked, cut to 
the base in five-linear lanceolate ciliated equal segments. Corolla 
large, slightly hairy, the ¢w4e curved, the narrow cylindrical 
portion as long as the calyx, when it becomes suddenly enlarged 
and campanulate, spreading into a five-lobed nearly equal /imdé, 
the throat somewhat hairy, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 
veined, the margin crenato-crisped. Stamens shorter than the 
tube, glandular. Anther dark-purple; cells aristate below. 
Ovary on a large gland. Style included. Stigma two-lobed. W.J.H. 
Cur. Most of the Acanthacee cultivated in our hot houses 
consist of soft-wooded plants, soon becoming unsightly, and re- 
quiring to be frequently renewed by bringing forward young 
healthy plants. The present species is rather an exception; for 
although it is of a straggling somewhat scandent habit, yet it is 
worthy of notice not only on account of its pretty flowers but 
also for its full and fine dark-green foliage, not subject to insects. 
Being a native of Sierra-Leone it requires to be grown in a hot 
and moist atmosphere. A mixture of loam and peat with the 
addition of a little leaf-mould will suit it, the pot bemg 
placed in a position to receive bottom heat. On account of its 
scandent habit it requires to be supported, either by stakes or 
trained to a neat wire trellis fixed to the pot. Cuttings take 
root readily, when placed in pans under a bell-glass and plunged 
in bottom heat. 
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Stamen :—magnified. 
