Raceme large, handsome, from between a pair of leaves, 
and frequently bearing a small pair of leaves upon the 
peduncle. Peduncles flexuose, opposite, about an inch long, 
single-flowered, and with two bracteas in our plant, three- 
flowered according to Jacquin. Calyx a short, oval tube, 
coriaceous, glabrous, green, brownish at the edge, entire at 
‘the margin, but often cleft on one side. Corolla three 
inches or more long, with a rather compressed tube, swollen 
upwards, its limb cleft into five, nearly equal, spreading, 
very wavy, roundish segments, the lowermost one bifid: its 
color is a full deep and bright yellow, glabrous except at 
the base within, at the mouth marked with reddish lines in 
dots. Stamens pale yellow. Filaments, and even the 
small sterile one, glanduloso-hirsute at the base. Anthers 
of two oblong, divaricated, one-celled lobes. Germen 
oblong, attenuated at the base, placed on a large, globose, 
fleshy, yellow-green gland. Style filiform, shorter than the 
corolla. Stigma bilamellate. 
Iam indebted to my friend J. T. Mackay, Esq., of the 
Dublin College Botanic Garden, for the specimen here 
figured of this. most desirable inmate of the stove, and 
which is, I believe, still of rare occurrence in our collec- 
tions. Its foliage and flowers are amongst the handsomest 
of the family of the climbing plants: but with a view to its 
blossoming in perfection, a great deal of space must be 
allowed to it. It flowered in April. 
TS 
Fig. 1. Calyx, laid open to show the Germen and Gland. 2. A perfect 
and the sterile Filament :—slightly magnified. 
