forms between these and others, perhaps connecting them all 
with the old 4. cathartica, may yet be found. The erect 
or scandent habit, so striking a character in cultivated plants, 
is one singularly liable to variation ina state of nature. For 
the magnificent specimen here figured, I am indebted to Mr. 
Glendinning, of Turnham Green, with whom it flowered in 
July, 1868. 
Descr. A tall stout pubescent climber, the pubescence 
extending over all parts except the upper surface of the 
corolla lobes. Stems slender, green tinged with purple. 
Leaves opposite or whorled in threes and fours, subsessile, 
six to eight inches long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, abruptly 
acuminate, pale green above, paler and more pubescent below, 
glands minute, orbicular. F/owers in six- to eight-flowered 
axillary racemes; shortly pedicelled. Sepals very unequal, 
about one inch long, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, subacute, 
green. Corolla four to five and a half inches in diameter, fine 
golden yellow, with a pale spot at the base of each segment; 
tube rather slender, one and a half inch long, expanding 
abruptly into an oblique campanulate limb, which has five 
imbricating broadly orbicular-obovate spreading three-nerved 
segments, margined externally with red in the bud.—/. D. #. 
Fig. 1. Disc, ovary, style and stigma :—magnified. 
