scarcely noticeable. It is almost certain that J. saccata, 
- Hallier f. (in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxviii. p. 48), from German 
East Africa, of which there is no specimen at Kew, 
should also be referred to 7. dasysperma. At Kew the 
species has been raised and flowered in a tropical house. 
Description.—Herb, apparently annual, everywhere quite glabrous. Stems 
twining, 6-8 ft. high or more, very slender, simple or sparingly branched, at 
times tuberculate. Leaves petioled, wide cordate-ovate,.13-4 in. long and 
broad, 3-sect with the main lobes more or less narrowed at the base, and the 
central lobe 8-partite while the lateral are 2-3-partite, or at times pedate ; lobes 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, quite éntire, 2-8 in. long, }—3 in. wide; petioles 
{2 in. long, occasionally with rudimentary leaves resembling stipules in their 
axils. Peduncles axillary, 14-1} in. long, 1-3 (rarely 4)-flowered, with a few 
minute bracts. Sepals 5, elliptic with rounded tips, 1-2 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, 
their margins membranous, their bases outside with 1 or 2 small pouches or 
spurs. Corolla salver-shaped, glabrous; tube 1-1} in. long, 1-2 in. wide about 
the middle, narrowed at the base, pale purple throughout and deep purple at 
the throat; limb flattened, somewhat 5-angled, 23-4 in. across, from straw- 
colour to sulphur-yellow, with 5 narrow greenish bands. Stamens 5; filaments 
pilose at the base; anthers oblong. Ovary nearly globose, glabrous, encircled 
at the base by a narrow but stoutish disk; style filiform, included, longer than 
the stamens; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule globose, glabrous, about 2 in. across, 
2-celled. Seeds 2 to each cell, somewhat 3-gonous, about } in. long and broad, 
densely villous, sometimes fringed with long hairs along the two outer angles. 
Tas. 8788.—Fig. 1, calyx; 2, an outer sepal; 8, an inner sepal; 4, base of 
corolla-tube, laid open and showing the insertion of three of the stamens; 
5, pistil :—al/ enlarged. 
