strong-growing climber comparable, from the cultural 

 standpoint, with A. cymbifera, Mart. & Zucc, and 

 A. brasiliensis. Mart. & Zucc, two Brazilian species; like 

 these, it may be expected to thrive well and flower freely 

 in a moist tropical house. 



Description.— Shrub ; stem twining, glabrous. Leaves 

 petioled, stipulate, glabrous; lamina 3-4J in. long, 

 3.,-5 in. broad, wide- and deep-cordate, somewhat acute, 

 bluntly rounded at the tip, basal lobes wide-rounded, 

 green above, glaucous-green beneath ; petiole 2-2{ in. 

 long; stipules £-£ in. long, f-f in. wide, sessile, orbicular, 

 cordate at the base, glabrous. Flowers solitary ; peduncles 

 axilJary, including the ovary 4^-5j in. long, ebracteate, 

 glabrous Perianth large, 1-lipped, showy, yellowish- 

 wmte with brown-purple veins, glabrous; tube abruptly 

 recurved above the swollen base, the swollen portion 2 in. 

 long, 1 ? m. wide, pubescent within near the top, upper 

 portion about as long as the lower, somewhat funnel- 

 shaped; limb sessile, 4-4J in. long, nearly 3 in. wide at 

 tne base, erect, obliquely oblong or long-ovate-oblong, 

 bluntly rounded at the tip. Column almost sessile, 

 slightly obconic, 6-lobed at the tip; lobes I in. long, 

 lanceolate, erect, incurved at the tip, obtuse. Anthers 6, 

 linear, their apices reaching the bases of the lobes of the 

 column Capsule 4 in. long or rather longer, H-l§ in. 

 wide, oblong, 6-angled, the angles prominent, dehiscing 

 trom below upwards. Seeds about f in. long, l in. wide! 

 flat, cuneate-obovate, almost papery, smooth on the 

 upper lace, finely verruculose on the central area below. 



thf^tfarel Shin-I P e ? anth4 » be ! cut °pen to show the column and 



