flowers only, are rather larger than is the case in the 
plant from which our figure has been prepared, but there 
is no other difference discernible. The plant figured, 
which flowered at Kew in June, 1914, was acquired by 
purchase from Messrs. Thompson and Charman, Nursery- 
men, Bushey, according to whom it had been obtained 
from British East Africa from a locality 6000 feet above 
sea-level, The introduction appears to have been effected 
by Mr. W. van der Weyer, Corfe Castle, Dorset, by whom 
it was shown at an exhibition of the Royal Horticultural 
Society in May,1913. The limb of the corolla is of a 
deep orange colour and waxy consistence, and the species 
is thereby readily distinguished from its nearest ally in 
the genus, the well-known 7. alata, Boj., also originally 
a native of Tropical Africa, though now naturalised in 
some parts of South-eastern Asia, long ago figured at 
t. 2591 of this work. In habit a perennial, 7. Gibsonii 
when grown in a pot under ordinary greenhouse con- 
ditions quickly develops leafy shoots which flower freely 
in summer. 3 
Description.—Herb, perennial, twining, 4-5 ft. high; 
stems terete, beset with long spreading or slightlyrecurved 
hairs. Leaves ovate, acute, base cordate-sagittate, up to 
3 in. long and 2} in. wide, midrib and lateral nerves 
somewhat sunk above, and raised beneath, harshly 
pubescent on both surfaces; petiole about 1} in. long, 
slightly winged, the margins beset with spreading hairs. 
flowers axillary, solitary; peduncle over 4 in. long, 
hairy; bracteoles 2, narrow-ovate, acute, base cordate, 
15-1, in. long, 3 in. wide, rusty-pubescent externally, 
glandular-pubescent within. Calyx cup-shaped; lobes 
about 12, glandular-pubescent outside, glabrous within, 
3 in. deep, } in. across, with a flat, irregularly-lobed, 
glandular epicalyx at its base. Corolla tube curved- 
cylindric, abruptly narrowed downwards and 2-sulcate 
in front, about 14 in. long, over 4 in. wide at the mouth, 
only + in. wide at the base, with 2 longitudinal hirsute 
lines; limb orange, lobes 5, spreading, ovate-triangular 
with a truncate-emarginate apex, the anterior and 
lateral nearly an inch in length and width, the two 
posterior about 2 in. long and broad. Stamens 4, in. 
