filaments of the corona, and also in the stipules being 

 linear, not ovate with subulate tips. 



Descr. — A glabrous, stout, climbing shrub, with sub- 

 terete stem and branches. Leaves eight to ten inches 

 long, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, 

 base cuneate or rounded ; petiole one half to one inch long, 

 biglandular about the middle. StijJules very slender, about 

 four-tenths of an inch long, deciduous. Tendrils un- 

 branched. Peduncles solitary or binate, axillary, one and 

 a half to two inches long. Bracteoles inserted beneath the 

 apex of the peduncle, about an inch long, nearly orbicular, 

 concave, green, eglandular. Flowers ^ve inches in diameter ; 

 perianth fleshy, tube oblate, deeply intruded, and almost 

 ten-lobed at the base. Sepals 5, narrowly linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, dorsally white and costate, with a short horn 

 below the apex, ventrally pale pink, closely punctulate 

 Avith rose-purple. Petals shorter and much narrower than 

 the sepals, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, white, dotted with 

 rose-purple towards the margin. Corona nearly two' 

 inches long ; outer filaments about one-third as long as the 

 inner, very slender, red, banded with white ; inner filaments 

 stout, fleshy, obtuse or sub-acute, violet, banded with 

 white; innermost corona very short, basilar, recurved, 

 ciliate.— J. D. E. 



^'g- 1. joxmg leaf and stipules of the natural size; 2, vertical section of 

 base of perianth with [..istil, stamens, and some of tlie coronal filaments ; 

 .3. portion of innermost corona ; 4, dorsal view of anther and tilaraents :— u// 

 enlorged. 



