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climbing extensively but not without support ; the older branches 
pale cinereous with the 1. crowded towards their ends, the young- 
shoots shining olivaceous or atropurpureous greatly elongated 
and loosely erecto-patent with the 1. remote. L. 3 or 4-6 in. 
long, 1^-2 in. broad, wholly smooth, dark shining gr. above, 
paler dull glossy with 5 or 6 prominent parallel nerves on each 
side the midrib beneath ; the margins mostly slightly or partially 
subre volute ; the 2 or 3 floral 1. close below the pedic. smaller and 
like some of the lower 1. spatliulate retuse or mucronulate. 
Petioles l|-lf in. long, channelled above, bright gr. FI. mostly 
1 rarely 2 or 3 together at the ends of the branchlets erect or 
pendulous, fragrant especially at night, large, conspicuous. 
Pedic. short thick smooth subangularly turbinate fleshy gr. like 
an inferior ovary, 4-6 lines long, 3 thick at base, 5 at top. Cal. 
quite smooth gr. leafy carinatelv 5-angular unequally 2-4- 
toothed, 3 or 2 of the normally 5 teeth being mostly concrete 
into 1 or 2 broad 2-1 -carinate teeth ; either 2-labiate or oftener 
split down nearly or more than halfway on the lower side only, 
2|-3|- in. long ; teeth triangular-ovate acute, their tips marces- 
cent. Cor. 5- (very rarely 4-)fid quite smooth outside, slightly 
or thinly lanato-pilose inside downwards, the tube 5^-6 in. long, 
pentangular downwards, inflated upwards, from 10-12 lines at 
top of cal. to l|-2 in. in diani. an inch below the limb, then 
again a little contracted, yellowish gr. inside and outside down- 
wards, lighter and pale-greenish buff-y. upwards, with 5 gr. 
nerves reaching to the base of lobes ; limb w. or cream-col., the 
lobes unequal short broad rounded waved reflexed or revolute, 
3-4 smaller quite or partially entire, the 4-1 larger wholly or 
partly crispato-fimbriate, all at first pure w. then cream-col. and 
finally bright buff or nankeen-col. Stain, declinato-ascending, 
reaching to top of tube or nearly to base of lobes ; style a little 
longer, declining and then curvato-ascending. Fil. quite smooth 
shining pale gr. rounded throughout, attached to the cor. -tube 
nearly halfway up. Anth. oval-oblong short broad remarkably 
flat and thin obtuse or rounded at top, subcordate at the base, 
before bursting ochre-y., afterwards dark atropurpureous or 
blackish claret-col. inside, but whitened outside by the copious 
mealy- w. pollen, erect affixed by their base, not versatile, 4 lines 
long, 2 broad. Style 6| in. long or ^ in. longer than the stain, 
smooth rounded pale shining gr., sometimes tinged with lilac or 
pale purpurascent upwards ; stigma gr. simply capitate like a 
small pin’s head, i. e. a small globose uniform velvety gr. knob 
or button without the least trace of lobes or division, 1£ mill, in 
diam., abrupt not at all decurrent but scarcely broader than the 
style immediately beneath it. Ov. quite smooth shining pale 
gr.-waxy-v., pyramidato-conoidal 2-celled niany-ovulate with a 
tumid fleshy 10-sinuato-crenate ring at its base. Fr. never 
produced in Mad., the 11. soon caducous with their pedic. 
