Description : — A climber. Stem fleshy, glabrous. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, 3*5-6 cm. long, 1-5-3-5 cm. broad, broadly 

 oblong or oblong-ovate, apex rounded and shortly pointed, 

 cordate at the base, glabrous ; lateral nerves about four on 

 each side ; petiole about 1 cm. long. Inflorescence a 1-3- 

 flowered axillary cyme ; pedicels l-2-l'5 cm. long, terete, 

 glabrous. Sepals 4-5 mm. long, subulate, glabrous. Corolla 

 abruptly bent at a right angle near the base ; tube (following 

 the bend) 2 f 6 cm. long, globosely inflated at the base, widening 

 upwards and about 2 cm. in diameter at the mouth, glabrous 

 without, finely pilose within ; lobes free at the base, abruptly 

 inflexed over the mouth of the tube and produced beneath into 

 broad triangular partition-like green plates or keels, meeting 

 at the centre and connate into a slender erect column about 

 2-3 mm. long, then again becoming free and expanding into 

 elliptic-lanceolate replicate segments, connate at the tips, 

 forming a small apical ellipsoid cage-like body, 5-8 mm. long, 

 ciliate on the margins. Outer corona cupular, with five broad 

 emarginate lobes arising to the level of the staminal column, 

 ciliate and hairy within with long fine hairs ; inner corona 

 lobes about 2*5 mm. long, linear, connivent-erect over the 

 staminal column, with revolute tips. Follicles about 14 cm. 

 long, strongly falcate, recurved at the tips. 



Plate 44. — Fig. 1, portion of stem with leaves and flowers, nat. size; 

 Fig. 2, calyx ; Fig. 3, lobe of corolla ; Fig. 4, outer and inner corona ; Fig. 5, 

 staminal column ; Fig. 6, pollinia ; Fig. 7, follicles, nat. size. All enlarged 

 with the exceptions of Figs. 1 and 7. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



