[Plate 2.] 
THE GLITTERING GLAND-BEARING TRUMPET-FLOWER. 
(ADENOCALYMMA NITIDUM.) 
A Stove Plant, from Brazil, belonging to the Natural Order of Bigxoxiads 
Specific Character* 
THE GLITTERING GLAND-BEAHING TRUMPET- 
FLOWER. — A smooth climber. Leaves od rather long 
stalks, mostly in threes, or in pairs with an intermediate 
simple tendril, the leaflets on short stalks, (the middle one 
longest,) elliptical-oblong. Racemes axillary, or nearly 
terminal, shorter than the leaves, velvety. Bracts, oblong 
or linear, as long as the calyx, glandular below the point. 
Calyx with five short teeth, velvety, irregularly glandular^ 
sometimes slit on one side. Corolla rather velvety. 
ADENOCALYMMA NITIDUM; scandens, glabrum, foliia 
longiuscule petiolatis plerisque trifoiiolatis, aut bifoliolatis 
cirrho simplici intermedio, foliolis brevius petiolatis, 
(impari longius) oblongis glabris, racemis multifloris 
terminalibusqu 
oblongis linearibusque 
uaU 
irresrulariter 
corolla subvelutina. 
Adenocalymna nitidum : Martin* in De Candolle's Prodromus, vol. 9, p. 200. 
We received a specimen of this very pretty climber from Messrs. Knight and Perry of the King* 
Road, in the beginning of February. 
Makoy 
Guliehna, which belongs to a totally different plant, belongin 
&> 
natural 
Mons. Alpli 
enumeration. "Thickets and dry places, near Rio Janeiro; on the Corcovado 
mountain, near the Mandioc 
in the province of Baliia, near Maracas." 
We 
without 
It is said to vary much in appearance, 
unless, indeed, more than one distinct species is comprehended under 
Professor 
called Adenocalvmm 
arieties 
yellowish 
The 
leaflets grow in pairs, with a simple tendril between them j or else in threes without an intermediate 
an obloner hsrure 
threes 
The 
grow 
wild specimens they sometimes occur as many as thirty 
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