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ceiur full five inches long; only a part of them, however, are open at a time. The bracts are velvety, 
narrow, and placed close to the calyx ; they have usually a small shining gland or two below their point. 
In likr manner the calyx, which is also velvety, has several glands of the same kind dispersed irregularly 
below its fivr short teeth; it is also often slit down one side. The corolla, which is fully two inches 
long, is of a thick leathery texture, deep yellow, contracted at the base into a narrow tube as long as 
the cal Ej and enlarged upwards into a somewhat curved trumpet, divided at the edge ir 
equal blunt spreading lobes. The stamens are didynamous, arising from a throat covered 
short hairs ; the fifth stamen is a very short hooked body. 
'[Tie remarkable glands which appear on the bracts and calyx constitute one of the most striking 
p« uliaritii of this genus, and have given rise to its scientific name (ahrjv a gland, and koAv/x/xcz a 
covering) which we have translated at the head of this article. Mons, De Candolle writes the word 
Adenocalymna, which is evidently wrong. "What the use or nature of such glands may be, is 
unknown. They have a definite form, although an indefinite position; they are quite destitute of 
the short hairs which clothe the neighbouring parts, and they evidently secrete some fluid, as is 
shown by their moist surface. They are therefore glands in the proper sense of the word, as limited 
by Professor Schleiden. 
The Glandular Trumpet- flowers are confined to tropical America, where they scramble 
with 
Professor 
Candolle admits nil 
climbers, often opening thirteen or fourteen large trumpet-shaped blossoms before one begins to fade. 
To gardeners they would be invaluable, and should be diligently sought for in the provinces of Para, 
Bahia, Piauhy, and even of Rio itself, whence the species now figured appears to have been brought 
to Europe. Another very handsome species, the Adenocalymma longiracemosum, was introduced by 
\[. de Jonghe of Brussels, and is probably to be found in gardens. 
The b< way of gro ing this has not been ascertained. Messrs. Knight and Co. state that, 
having appeared "a shy flowerer," it has not received the attention it was entitled to, so that they 
are unahle to offer any advice for its culture founded on practice, but they surmise that the treatment 
mod congenial to it, would be to afford it dry stove temperature, and to place it out in a large tub. 
roots freely in a mixture of half 
They 
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high tern) t ure applied to the soi 
natural indisposition in these clim 
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—perhaps 84° : and a rest of three or four months. There 
ant of that stimulus which nature so abundantly 
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tolochia picta, of which a wood-cut will be found at the 
, - c ->" ma y De advantageously consulted. It should also be 
remembered that in the places u here such plants exist little manure accumulates, except that formed 
by he ever decaying foliage and fallen wood which strews the earth of the tropical forest ; 
what manure does exist is rliipflr «imnii'«ri w u;-;u r 
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