of each inner petal. It appears to have been first discovered 
at Valparaiso by Mr. Cumine, with whose collections it has 
been distributed, marked, No. 345, in 1830, “* These speci- 
mens,’’ Dr. Granam observes, “ differ from the cultivated 
plant only in being more drawn out, in the peduncles being 
occasionally three-flowered, in the leaves being more ellip- 
tical, less glaucous, and free from undulation in the edges, 
but in every essential particular the two appear to be the 
same.” Our drawing was made by Mr. M‘Naszat the Edin- 
burgh Botanic Garden, in April, from a plant sent to Dr. 
Grauam by Mr. Knigur. 
Descr. Stems numerous, flexuose and voluble, green, 
glabrous and shining, simple. Leaves ovato-oblong, many 
nerved, crisped at the edge, in my cultivated specimens 
glabrous on both sides, bright green above, glaucous below, 
petioled ; petioles twisted, illustrating that beautiful ar- 
rangement of nature to correct that lusus, so common in 
this Genus, by which the upper and lower surfaces of the 
leaf are originally reversed. Umbel terminal, several rayed, 
the rays generally bifid and supporting two flowers. Brac- 
tee and bracteole corresponding in number to the primary 
and secondary divisions of the umbel, obovato-spathulate, 
crisped, and generally coloured in the edges. Corolla 
(nine lines long, seven and a half across) campanulate, red ; 
petals subequal in length, the outermost the broadest, 
nerved, ovate, so narrow as to resemble a claw nearly in 
their lower half, notched at the apex, somewhat revolute in 
their edges ; inner ones sandglass-shaped, pubescent on the 
inside in their lowest half, connivent in the middle, so as to 
close the throat, which is whitish and surrounded by a 
broad, dark purple semilunar band, especially on the two 
uppermost (which are the broadest) of the three inner pe- 
tals. Stamens shorter than the corolla, decumbent ; fila- 
ments glabrous at their origin and near the apex, pubescent 
and slightly swollen in the centre, immediately above 
which they are sprinkled with small lilac tubercles ; anthers 
ascending, reddish-leaden-coloured, oblong, flat, bursting 
in the edges, when, as in the Genus, they become flattened 
in the opposite direction ; pollen granules minute, greenish- 
_ leaden-coloured. Pistil about as long as the stamens; 
Stigma trifid ; Style glabrous, with some small scattered 
lilac tubercles in its upper part; germen dark green, tur- 
binate, triquetrous, angles rounded. Graham. ; 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Inner, 3, Outer Petal -—magnified. : 
