By Mr. John Lindley. 



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closely united into a cone, in which the capitate stigma is 

 firmly enclosed ; the ovary is double and distinct, with one 

 filiform smooth style ; at the base it is surrounded by five large 

 white hypogynous glands, which alternate with the sepals. 

 From the above description, which I hope to be excused for 

 having made more than usually minute, it appears, that 

 although this plant has many points of resemblance with 

 Echites, yet that, on the other hand, it differs in too many 

 essential particulars from that genus, to be considered the 

 same. I therefore propose to call it Haemadictyon, in allu- 

 sion to the numerous blood-coloured veins of the leaves, 

 which constitute the chief beauty of the plant ; distin- 

 guishing it from Echites by the little scales of the throat, 

 the regularity of the segments of the corolla, and the great 

 hypogynous glands ; from Holarrhena and Ichnocarpus by 

 the same characters, and, in addition, by the difference in the 

 form of their corollas. It is scarcely necessary to indicate 

 the points in which Haemadictyon differs from Apocynum 

 and Cryptolepis. 



This is a fine shewy stove climber, much esteemed for the 

 singular beauty of its foliage. It is propagated by cuttings, 

 and cultivated in common earth. It was sent to the Society, 

 with many other curious plants, from the Botanic Garden, 

 St. Vincent's, by Mr. George Caley. 



The essential character of the genus will be this : 

 Haemadictyon ( cctpcc sanguis, Smtvov rete). Sguamulte tubi 

 5 inclusae. Cor. hypocrateriformis : laciniis reflexis aequali- 

 bus dilatatis. Stamina inclusa. Anther ce sagittata?, medio 

 stigmate cohaerentes. Ovaria 2. Stylus filiformis. Glanduhe 

 hypogyna? 5, sepalis alternae. 



