covered by Fendler, and published by Karsten, who has 
given an excellent figure of it, adopting the generic name of 
Rosenbergia, which was originally applied by Cirsted for an 
allied Central-American species. 
The seeds were sent to the Royal Gardens by Monsieur A. 
Ernst, of Caraccas, a zealous correspondent of this establish- 
ment ; and the plants flowered in the cooler end of the Palm 
House in December 1868. It has also been found near 
Tarapoto, in Eastern Peru, by Spruce. 
Descr. A slender, glabrous, pale-green climber. Leaves 
three to five inches long, pale green and membranous ; leaf- 
lets in two pairs, one and a half to two inches long, petiolu- 
late, narrow oblong, acute or acuminate, obtuse or rounded 
at the base; petiole ending in a long, branched, filiform, 
tortuous tendril. Pedwncles solitary, axillary, pendulous, 
eight to ten inches long, naked, 1-flowered. ower four to 
five inches long from the base of the calyx to the tips of the 
corolla-lobes. Calyx-tube dilated, lobed and intruse at the 
base; segments one and a half inch long, broadly linear, 
acuminate, green. Corolla green, campanulate; tube one 
inch, and lobes three to four inches long, the latter strap- 
shaped, not one-quarter of an inch broad, pendulous, wavy, 
2-fid at the tip. Stamens spreading; filaments three inches 
long, dark red-purple; anthers yellow, three-quarters of an 
inch long. Style filiform, green; stigma slender.—J. D. i. 
Fig. 1. Base of corolla and stamen. 2. Tip of corolla-lobes. 3. Base 
of calyx, dise, and ovary. 4. Transverse; and 5. Longitudinal section of 
ovary :—all magnified. 
