rather salver- (hypocrateriform) than funnel-shaped (infun- — 
dibuliform). The rough tubercled branches of our plant 
afford at first sight another distinction. In pendula a woolly 
pubescence will be found near the base of the petioles, 
which we did not perceive here. 
Troma@a tuberculata is a slender twining suffrutescent 
plant, attaining the height of five or six feet; native of 
the East Indies, where it grows in the hedges; flowers 
during the cold season, and is reckoned the most orna- 
mental’ of its genus. Stem round, with a brownish bark ; 
branches numerous, tubercled, with here and there a tu- 
bercle assuming.a spinelike appearance. Leaves smooth, 
quinate, 2-3 inches in diameter; leaflets oval-lanceolate, 
obtuse;~with a*small point, outer ones generally shorter 
and''2-8-cleft, commonly distinct from the rest, and sub-. 
petioled: petioles shorter than the leaf, minutely tubercled., 
Peduneles solitary, firm, trichotomously three-flowered, up- 
right,shorter'than theleaf, bibracteolate. Calyw thick, of 
a deep” ereen colour, two or three times shorter than’ the 
cylindrically lengthened faux; outer leaflets rather shorter, 
cordate::» Corolla about two inches deep, of a pale violet-. 
purple throughout the tubular portion, of. a faint yellow at 
the ‘limb ;’ segmients rounded and shallow. Seeds largish, 
brown, few, woolly at the angles. 
Last spring a packet of seeds arrived from the East 
Indies;~sentby Sir Evan Nepean to Messrs. Whitley, 
- Milne,’ and’ Brame, nurserymen, King’s Road, Parson's 
_ Greeti; among ‘them were those from which the present 
plant»was:raised.. These were stated to have been collected 
in the-botanic garden‘at Calcutta. 
On the transfer of the species from Convorvurus to 
Troma, Dr. Roxburgh’s name of digitatus could not be 
retained, it being already occupied by another. 
« The section of the lower part of the corolla. The pistil. % 
