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and oblong ; the adult leaves are smooth ; all are entire, 

 have inconspicuous lateral nerves, and the middle one elongat- 

 ed into an urn-bearing tendril. The Cirrhi of the lower 

 leaves are not twisted, but hang straight from the apex ; 

 they terminate in larger, ventricose, and highly coloured 

 ascidia or urns, fringed along the anterior angles with two 

 membranaceous fimbriate wings, somewhat contracted at the 

 mouth, which opens obliquely, rising much higher, and 

 slightly recurved behind, where the operculum is inserted. 

 The tendrils of the upper leaves are twisted into one or 

 two spires at the middle, and terminate in long ascending 

 funnel-shaped urns, flattened anteriorly but not winged, and 

 gracefully turned at the mouth like an antique vase or urn. 

 Both have the inverted margin beautifully and delicately 

 striated, and variegated with parallel stripes of purple, crim- 

 son, and yellow. The opercula are incumbent, membranace- 

 ous, ovate, marked with two principal longitudinal nerves 

 and cuspidate behind the hinge. The racemes are at first 

 terminal, but the stem begins, after a time, to shoot beyond 

 them, and they become lateral, and are always opposed to 

 a leaf which differs from the others in being sessile, and its 

 cirrhus never having an urn at its extremity. The pedicels 

 are one-flowered. 



Male. Calyx deeply four-parted, tomentose on the outer 

 surface, smooth, red, and punctate on the inner, segments 

 oblong, obtuse, reflex. Corolla none. The stamineous columfi 

 (columna staminea) central, erect, thick, red. Anthers 

 numerous, yellow, contorted into a round terminal head. 



Female. Calyx as in the male. Ovarium superior, ob- 

 long, four-sided, erect. Style none. Stigma sessile, peltate, 

 four-lobed. Capsule oblong, somewhat curved, four-angled, 

 deeply furrowed at the sides, four-celled, four-valved, the 

 valves septiferous in the middle, many-seeded. Seeds long, 

 linear, membranaceous, and acute at both ends, arranged 

 longitudinally, and affixed by the base to the partitions. 



