slightly concave above, pale and often blotched with red and 
convex beneath. Flowers on short red peduncles, solitary or in 
pairs, single-flowered. Calyx of five, deep, linear-lanceolate 
segments, red at the base. Corolla moderately large, cream- 
white, spotted with orange on the underside of the tube within, 
campanulate-infundibuliform : tube decurved, and again curved - 
upward at the mouth ; /imé of five, nearly equal, rounded seg- 
ments. Stamens shorter than the tube. Anthers united in 
pairs. Ovary ovate, hairy, with a large gland at the base of the 
back. Sfyle shorter than the stamens : stigma obtuse. WV. J. H. 
Curr. A soft-wooded suffruticose plant, of a trailing scandent 
habit, emitting roots from below the axils of the leaves, and 
growing as an epiphyte on trees in the moist forests of Tropical 
America. It should be kept in such an atmosphere as that 
appropriate for the cultivation of tropical Orchids, and, if there 
is sufficient accommodation, it may be allowed to grow in a 
natural manner over any elevated surface, covered with turfy 
sods, kept moist ; or may be planted in a pot or basket filled 
with loose turfy soil and suspended from the roof. J. S. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—magnified. 
