and prefer the well known denomination to that less known, 
altho’ of better taste. : 
The plant is singular as well as beautiful. The scarlet 
undulate retroverted ascending segments of the corolla, are 
likened by Linnzus to so many flames; the style points 
horizontally, and appears as if broken at the base and fallen 
on its side; the root is a fleshy brittle elongated somewhat 
flattened tuber, bent downwards on each side from the 
middle into a kind of arch, from the upper part of the, 
eentre of which the stem rises; in old plants a catenation 
of these forms a structure of very singular appearance. 
Monsieur Desfontaines recommends the taking up of these 
when the stem decays, and laying them by in the hothouse, 
before they are replanted in the spring. The stem is from 
six to ten feet high, weak and supported by the hold 
that the leaves take of the neighbouring plants, by means of 
a spiral tendril growing from their point. The corolla 
varies from two to three inches in depth. The plant has the 
reputation of being poisonous. Its place in the natural 
system is among. the Zilia, near to Eryturonium and 
Uvurartia. 
Native of the East Indies. Introduced by. Mr. Bentinck, 
afterwards Lord Portland, in 1690. We suspect the plant 
from Guinea is a distinct species. 
_ Requires to be kept, while growing, constantly in the 
tan-pit of the hothouse, where. it flowers late in the sum- 
mer. acs . 
Multiplied by: parting: the. tubers. 
a 
The drawing. was made from.a plant which flowered this 
autumn in Mr, Vere’s collection at Kensington Gore, 
@ A segment of the corolla, with a stamen attached. % The pistil, after 
whe corolla is removed. 
