" Biologia Centrali Americana." For the plant figured I 

 am indebted to the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge, where, 

 as Mr. Lynch informs me, it was received from Mexico with 

 the name of the Bird-plant. 



Descr. — An erect ramous herb, with pubescent stem, 

 branches, petioles, and leaf-margins. Leaves three to 

 four inches long, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 remotely toothed, petiole slender ] floral small, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, entire. Peduncles solitary, sub-erect, axillary, 

 two to three inches long, slender. Floiver about two inches 

 long, falcately incurved. Oalyx-teeth small, subulate, 

 green, three at the base of the corolla, spreading, two 

 smaller erect at the apex of the tube of the corolla. Corolla- 

 tube corniform, blood-red ; limb golden-yellow, three-lobed 

 beyond the middle, lobes equal in length, side ones narrow, 

 Imear, middle one oblong. Staminal column as long as 

 the limb of the corolla, erect. — J, D. H, 



Fig. 1 Bower with the limb of the corolla removed : 2, anthers ; 3, top oE 

 vie aud atierma: — all enlarnc'l. 



style aud atigma: — all enlarged. 



