denia as many of the species referred to it. It is, we need 
hardly add, a stove plant, and a more highly ornamental one can 
scarcely be imagined; most appropriately named in honour of 
Lord Harris, the late able Governor of Trinidad, and a great friend 
to science. ‘The following is chiefly from Mr. Purdie’s accurate 
notes. 
_ Drscr. Fruticose, scandent, branched ; ranches glabrous, te- 
rete. Leaves opposite, the largest of them ten to fifteen inches 
long, four to five broad, oblong, approaching to ovate, tapering 
to a point, submembranaceous, pinnately veined, often purplish 
beneath. Petioles scarcely an inch long, stout. Racemes axil- 
lary and terminal. Pedice/s often an inch long, red, bracte- 
ated, curved downwards so as to be quite subsecund, while the 
flowers are in bud. Cualyz of five, deep, subimbricated, ovate, 
obtuse, slightly concave, green /obes or segments lying close to : 
the swollen base of the corolla: each has within, at the base, near 
the margin, an orbicular toothed scale; two of the lobes are 
smaller than the other three. Corolla large, handsome, fra- 
grant, full glossy yellow, the tube tinged externally with red, and 
internally streaked with the same colour, forming bifid rays on 
_ the limb, which latter is three and a half inches across: tvbe 
funnel-shaped, contracted below, the base itself swollen or in- 
flated and five-ribbed, Jodes of the Jimé large, spreading, subro- 
tund. Sfamens included, inserted at the constriction near the 
base of the tube ; fiZaments short, downy ; anthers sagittate, hairy 
at the back, each side below terminating in a spine. Ovaries 
two, glabrous, surrounded by five large fimbriated or almost 
digitated glands, united at the base into a cup. Styles united ; 
stigma clubbed, bifid at the apex, sheathed by the anther. 
Fig. 1. Section of the base of the corolla. 
glands. 38. Two of the calycine lobes. 
magnified. 
2. Pistil and the hypogynous 
4. Stamen seen from within :-— 
