Messrs. Veitch received seeds of their plant from Mr. M‘Ivor 
of the Botanic Garden of Ootacamund, who obtained them pro- 
bably from the locality mentioned by Dr. Wight, viz. Nuggur, 
in Mysore. Fine flowering specimens were exhibited at Chis- 
wick, with five or six racemes. 
Dzscr. A climbing shrub, with very long slender branches, 
extending far and wide, everywhere glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
on rather long petioles, 3-4 inches to a span long, oblong-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, membranaceous, three-nerved, reticulated with 
transverse nerves, the base often subhastate, the margin entire, 
or more or less distinctly toothed. Pefioles swollen at the apex, 
and still more at the base or point of insertion. /acemes very 
long, pendent, terminal on short leafy branches, bracteated ; 
bracteas rather remote, opposite in pairs, all small, lanceolate ; 
lower ones without flowers; the rest bearing single-flowered 
pedicels in their axils an inch or more long, at first straight, at 
length, when the flower expands, curved upwards, so as to bring 
the flower into an erect position. oral bracteas two, large, 
closely applied to the flower, ovate, striated, purplish-green, at 
first closed, and including the whole blossom, at length opening 
on one side for the exclusion of the corolla, and then resembling 
a monophyllous spatha. Calyx very small, cup-shaped, shallow, 
the margin sinuous, entirely concealed by the bracteas. Corolla 
very large, bright, deep and full yellow. Limé spreading, four- 
lobed,—that is, the upper lip is not deeply bifid or two-lobed, 
but rather truncated and obscurely three-lobed ; lower lip deeply 
three-lobed ; all the lobes spreading. Stamens (as well as the 
style) shorter than the upper lip of the corolla, and sunk into a 
groove or channel (with a plica on each side). Anthers having a 
tuft of long hairs at the base. Spurs long, subulate. Ovary 
ovate, sunk into a large flat hypogynous disc, as large as the 
calyez. Style slender. Stigma funnel-shaped, hollow. 
Fig. 1. Anther. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Calyx, hypogynous disc, and ovary : 
—imagnified. 
