altogether satisfactory. Dr. Stapf points out that Odonta- 
denia, to which Mueller has referred the plant here figured, 
is characterised by the very short, almost subglobose infra- 
staminal portion of the corolla-tube, the densely tomentose 
anthers and the very firm wooly follicles explanate when 
they dehisce and then over 23 in. across. Within his 
Angadenia, Miers has aggregated 26 species which are far 
from uniform in appearance. Dr. Stapf therefore proposes 
to treat Angadenia in a narrower sense, limiting the name 
to a smaller group of obviously allied forms more or less 
resembling <A. nitida in facies. This restricted Angadenia 
includes Miers’ species A. /ypoglauca, A. coriacea, A. elegans 
and A. geminata and appears to be confined to Nor 
Eastern Brazil, Guiana and Trinidad. 
Cunrivation.—A. nitida, which extends from Para 
through Guiana to Trinidad, was received at Kew in 19¢ 
from the Trinidad Botanic Gardens where it wa 
Echites neriandra. It has grown freely in a 
its shoots extending for several yards a 
under the roof, and flowering freely in Jul 
the appearance of a small-flowered yellow Di ladenia. is: 
flowers althongh not brightly coloured are pleasing and the 
leafy shoots always look healthy. A useful plant for 
clothing a pillar in a tropical house, it ought in tropical 
countries to be as serviceable on a trellis as the Passifloras. 
Description.—Shrub, glabrous, climbing ; branches. a 
ing to the right. Leaves oblong or elliptic, acute or obtu 
often slightly cuspidate, entire, slightly cordate 
nerves 12-15 on each side, bright. green and shin 
pruinose beneath, chartaceous, 4-6 in, long, 14-24 in. wide; 
petiole slender, 4-} in. long. Inflorescence of axillary, 
racemiform cymes, their peduncles slender, 3-5 in. long, the 
flowers approximate upwards, nodding; bracts ovate ; 
pedicels }—} in. long. Sepals ovate, obtuse, membranous 
above, under } in. long, glandular at the base within 
Corolla yellow with a vermilion band opposite the insertio 
of the stamens, 1} in. long; tube narrow below and con 
stricted at the staminal ineertion, above narrowly funne. 
shaped, somewhat contorted; lobes obli ue, ovate-rotun 
subacuminate, 3 in. long. Stamens insert 4 in. abo 
