Descr. A climbing plant. Stem shrubby in the older por- 
tions, herbaceous and slender in the younger branches, and there 
clothed with rather long, very slender, spreading, silky hairs. 
Leaves opposite, on short footstalks, two to four lines long, ovate 
or oval, nearly elliptical, but rather acute at both ends, penni- 
nerved, glabrous in age, but the younger leaves are laxly silky. 
Peduncle terminal, hairy, bearing a lax eyme of four to six flowers ; 
the pedicels, subulato-lanceolate bracts, calyx, and corolline tube 
almost silky with long soft copious hairs. Pedicels short. Calyx 
cut to the base into five, subulate, erect lobes, equal in length 
with the narrow base of the tube of the corolla. Corolla large, 
full yellow. The ¢vde very hairy externally ; the base contracted, 
cylindrical; above that the tube becomes suddenly enlarged. 
Limb ample, of five spreading, rounded, imbricating lobes. 
Mouth naked. Stamens included. Anthers yellow, narrow- 
subulate. 
