ered, at the extremities of the branches, which are subse- 
quently elongated, rendering the peduncle axillary. Calyx 
green, glabrous, four-parted, with minute, divided inter-. 
vening teeth ; segments acute, at length reflected, one- 
nerved. Corolla (fully an inch and a half long, three lines 
and a half across the revolute limb,) very handsome, shin- 
ing on the outer surface, and glabrous every where, except 
a little above its base on the inside, where for some dis- 
tance it is densely clothed with inverted, white hairs ; tube 
clavato-funnel-shaped, with four flat sides, nectariferous, 
and only colourless at the base, every other part of the 
corolla vermillion-orange coloured, deepest on the inner 
side of the limb, green in the young buds, throat dilated 
and naked ; limb four-parted, segments deltoid, revolute. 
Stamens four, alternating with the segments of the corolla ; 
filaments colourless, adhering to the tube throughout its 
whole length, the free portion slightly connivent, and rather 
shorter than the segments of the limb; anthers versatile, 
oblong, purple, inserted by their back, bursting along the 
front of the cells, which are distant in the middle, conni- 
vent at the extremities ; pollen green. Germen inferior, 
green, compressed, bilocular, crowned by a white, depress- 
ed disk, which rises above the insertion of the corolla. 
Style rather longer than the stamens, exserted, colourless, 
filiform. Stigma green, blunt, of two, erect, parallel lobes. 
Ovules numerous, erect, on erect, free, columnar recep- 
tacles, one rising with each loculament from near the base: 
of the dissepiment. Capsule ovate, compressed, channelled 
on both sides, crowned by the persisting, indurated calyx, 
bivalvular, bilocular, opening by a division of the dissepi- 
ment ; valves boat-shaped, nerved, and each splitting into 
two teeth at the apex. Seeds brown, round, flattened, and 
surrounded by a membranous wing. 
This truly beautiful plant, raised from seed sent by Mr. TWEEDIE 
from Buenos Ayres, first showed flower in the stove of Mr. Ner1’s 
garden, Canonmills, near Edinburgh, in August last. Another and 
stronger specimen is just now (10th October,) opening its first blossoms ; 
and being covered with a profusion of buds in every stage, it promises 
to be exceedingly ornamental during many weeks. My native speci- 
mens, obligingly communicated by Mr. Twexpre, are from the woods of 
; — The a were iS on the banks of the Arroyo 4 
China, a stream which enters. the Ur: entre Rios. The dilated, 
naked throat of the corolla forms a dete 328 eeabiion to the Generic 
Character as drawn by Jussieu in Memoires du Museum 1820, p. 384, 
and the four-sided tube of the corolla with the connivent filaments are at 
variance with the Generic Character given by Dr Canvouzs, l.c. 
iS Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil, 2. i i co 
migainel. yx ‘istil, 2 ‘Section of the Germen. 3. Stigma: 
