hairy on both sides, the hairs soft and white, appressed, 
paler beneath. Petiole scarcely half an inch long, thick, 
downy, flat, or slightly grooved above, beneath convex. 
The color of the leaves is a pale green, the smaller and 
younger ones, at the extremity of the branches, beautifully 
tinged with red. Peduncles axillary, occupying the extre- 
mity of the branches, downy, bearing a spike of large and 
richly-coloured, drooping flowers. In my dried native spe- 
cimens, the upper leaves have fallen away, and then the 
inflorescence appears to be a compound brachiate spzke. 
Calyx infundibuliform, springing from the top of the small, 
slender, pentagonal germen, large, five-angled, quinquefid, 
green, shining, the segments acute, brown at the tips, black 
within at the base. At the base of the germen is an ovate, 
acute, deciduous bractea. Corolla of tive obovato-cuneate, 
shortly unguiculated petals, ofa deep scarlet colour, marked 
with still higher coloured veins. Stamens ten; five insert- 
ed lower down upon the calyx, and opposite its segments, 
and five in the sinuses of the segments, much protruded. 
Filaments red. Anthers, small, roundish, yellow. Style 
filiform, acute, green, longer than the stamens. Germen 
one-celled, with five ovules. : | 
This truly splendid stove plant was kindly communicated 
from the gardens of Wentworth House, by Mr. Cooper, in 
July last, as one which that able cultivator had received 
from Mr. Mackay, of the Clapton nursery, under the 
name of Comprerum grandiflorum. The country from 
whence it came was not specified: but on comparing it 
with specimens of a Comsrerum brought to me by Miss 
URNER, niece of the late General Turner, from Sierra 
Leone, I find it to correspond with them in every particular. 
There can scarcely be a question, therefore, of its having 
been introduced from that country. The plant was dis- 
covered by Mr. G. Don, while collecting for that inestima- 
ble institution, the Horticultural Society, growing ‘‘ near 
Freetown, and on the road to Congo,” and is described in 
the Linnzan Transactions. The flowers have at first sight 
the appearance of those of a species of Ipomma, being as 
large as in Ipomma Quamoclit. 
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wie 1. Flower, from which the Corolla is removed, the Calyx being 
ud. open to shew the Style and the insertion of the Stamens. 2. Petal. 3. 
(magnified) Section of the Germen.—Fig, 1. and 2. nat. size. 
