M. tenuifolium, the Coral Climber of South Africa, 
though it can be grown at Kew, never succeeds satis- 
factorily under the conditions that obtain here, and we 
are indebted to Mr. W. E. Gumbleton for the specimen 
now figured which was grown in his garden. In a note 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1908, vol. xlii. p. 79, 
Mr. Gumbleton records the receipt of three healthy well- 
grown plants of this species from Port Elizabeth, where it is 
found growing wild at the base of low scrubby bushes 
round the branches of which it twines its slender, wire-like 
stems. The evidence to be obtained from herbarium 
specimens indicates that the wild plant flowers more 
profusely and bears more brightly coloured corollas than is 
the case in this country. These flowers, which are waxy 
and Hoya-like, are produced in axillary bunches. The plant 
requires greenhouse conditions. 
margins often revolute. Cymes sublateral, 3—7-flowered 
peduncles 4-1} in. long; pedicels 4-} in. long, faintly 
tube } in. long, pentagonal, inflated below; lobes 1 lin., 
rounded-cordate, blunt, contorted-imbricate ; corona-tubereles 
small, attached to middle of corolla-tube. Staminal column 
5-spurred at the middle. olliclez solitary, 24-3 in. long, 
about } in. thick, fusiform, long acuminate, glabrous, Seeds 
1 in. long, ovate, tubercled, concave on one side, very 
convex on the other, with comose tips. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, corolla, laid open; 3, staminal column; 4 and 5, 
anthers :—all enlarged. 
