their branches, which give off small adventitious roots at 
the nodes, they form effective basket-plants, and bear a 
considerable resemblance to some of the tropical species of 
Aeschynanthus not only in this respect, but in the character 
ot the foliage and in the aspect of the flowers. It would 
appear, however, from the account given by Oersted, that 
under natural conditions this species has a woody stem 
which gives off lone straight spreading branches without 
adventitious roots. 
Descriprion.—Undershrub or herb, epiphytic; stem 
woody, somewhat 4-angled, rather tawny, glabrous, 
freely branched; branches simple, sparingly adpressed 
pubescent upwards, with internodes 5-9 lin. long, in a wild 
state, according to Oersted, strict and spreading or upraised, 
in cultivated plants flexuous and pendent. Leaves opposite, 
shortly petioled, wide ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or sub- 
acute, base obtuse or rounded, 5-8 lin. long, 3-5 lin. wide, 
fleshy, convex and deep green, shining and glabrous above, 
beneath pale green, and very finely adpressed puberulous ; 
lateral nerves 3-4 on each side, very oblique, distinct 
beneath ; petiole 1-1] lin. long. #owers axillary, solitary, 
erect, their peduncles about 5 lin. long. Sepals erect, much 
imbricate, ovate, caudate-acuminate, repandly toothed below, 
about 8 lin. long, 4 lin. wide, adpressed puberulous outside. 
Corolla pink, nearly 3 in. long, bilabiate, sparingly villous 
with jointed hairs externally ; tube narrow, slightly widened 
towards the throat, 1J-12 in. long, somewhat gibbous at the 
base behind ; upper lip galeate with a rounded or slightly 
cuspidate tip ; lateral lobes spreading, triangular, connate for 
some distance with the upper lip ; lower lip reflexed, linear- 
lanceolate, about 9 lin. long. Stamens 4, exserted ; fila- 
ments glabrous; anthers cohering. Disk-gland_ solitary, 
posticous, emarginate. Ovary adpressed pubescent; pla- 
centas 2-lamellate. 
Fig. 1, a pair of leaves; 2, calyx, i istil ; f 
; ; 2, calyx, in vertical section, and pistil; 3, base of @ 
_ Corolla and stamens; 4, a jointed corolla-hair :—ail enlarged. : 
