corymbosely branched, with a round stem, covered with a 
very pale smooth bark. Leaves usually in threes, obovately 
lanceolate, smooth except at the edge and middle nerve; s¢t 
pules 3, sheathing, alternate with the 3 leaves. Flowers bears 
ing some resemblance to those of the Trumpet-honeysuckle 
(Lonicera sempervirens), of an orange-scarlet colour, rather 
below an inch in length, and thicker than the diameter of 
a-crow-quill, upright, straight, scentless, terminating the 
branches in loosely corymbose panicles ; peduncles frequently - 
trichotomous, and three-flowered ; pedicles shorter than co, 
rolla. Zube somewhat quadrangular; /imb many times ~ 
shorter, obtuse. Mr. Salisbury, from whom we have bor, | 
rowed nearly the whole of what we have said of the cha. 
racter,. mentions two varieties, the one with narrow, the 
other with broad leaves. 
Native of Mexico. Introduced into the Madrid gar. 
dens in 1791; into those of England by Sir Joseph Banks 
in 1794. A hardy greenhouse plant of easy culture. Pro-~ 
pagated by cuttings. Flowers from July to October. 
The drawing was made from the nursery of Messrs. 
Kennedy and Lee, at Hammersmith. 
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