itself on the thickened midrib and the underpart of the young 

 leaves. The stipules are interpetiolar, with a very acute re- 

 flected deciduous apex, and at the base forming thickened 

 glands, which give a remarkably nodose appearance to the 

 axils. The flowers, equal in number to the leaves in each 

 axil, and about two inches in length, are pendulous upon 

 slender reddish peduncles of the same length. The calyx is 

 of a bright scarlet ; the tubular part, which is about equal in 

 length to the lobes, is slightly contracted in the middle, where 

 the petals and stamens are inserted, quite glabrous outside, 

 but slightly pubescent within, the upper half being funnel- 

 shaped : the border, which is much expanded, is divided into 

 four equal, rather fleshy, lanceolate segments, suddenly acute 

 at the apex. The petals, convolutely embracing the stamens, 

 are cuneate, of a deep purple colour, and almost wholly en- 

 closed within the tubular part of the calyx. The stamens, of 

 a deep red colour, are filiform, and of considerable length ; 

 four being somewhat longer than the calycine segments, the 

 other alternate four being of still greater length. The style 

 is filiform, somewhat longer than the stamens ; the exserted 

 portion is deep red, polished and glabrous ; that within the 

 calycine tube is paler, and rather pubescent. The stigma is 

 red, polished, clavate, with a four-lobed apex. The berry is 

 ovate, of a deep reddish purple. 



" I was greatly struck with this beautiful species when I 

 first met with it in the Organ mountains in 1829, clinging in 

 long festoons from a very tall tree, and exhibiting abundance 

 of its brilliant flowers. It was also collected by Mr. Gardner, 

 when he first botanized in the same range, (Gard. Collect. 

 no. 375) ; and on my last visit to those mountains I planted 

 a cutting, which I succeeded in bringing home, and which, 

 although nearly four years old, has only now shewn its first 

 blossom. The main stem has attained a length of eighteen 

 feet, and it has many accessory branches of nearly equal 

 length ; the older stems throughout their entire length ex- 

 hibit at each axil the peculiar stoloniform shoots shewn in 

 the drawing, and these are sometimes observed also in the 

 internodes bursting through the bark. It appears to me 

 quite a novel species, approaching F. affinis of St. Hilaire, 

 but differing in the proportions of its calyx, and in its general 

 habit, in which last respect it bears a greater approximation 



