ception of the species before us; which he considers too 
naturally allied to the East Indian group he had originally 
allotted to Ceropeaia to be separated. 
The drawing was taken in March last at the Nursery of 
Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s Road, Chelsea; where the 
plant flowered in the hothouse. No species of the genus 
has been before noticed in any of the catalogues of our 
gardens. 
Herbaceous. Root tuberous, large in proportion. tothe 
rest of the plant, which is scarcely more than from three to 
six inches high. Stem simple, generally twining. _ Leaves’ 
ovately lanceolate, fleshy, pointed, flattish, veinless, shortly 
stalked, outspread and slightly recurved at the ends, about 
half an inch long. Spike thinly set, composed of short al- 
‘ternate 2-3-flowered peduncles, divided into short pedicles 
with diminutive bractes. Flowers upright, the lowermost 
opening first. Calyx 5-parted; segments linearly subulate, 
moderately spreading, almost three times shorter than 
the urceolate part of the tube of the corolla. Corolla: 
tube cylindrical, springing from a green obovately globular 
faintly five-cornered base; faux funnelform, scored; seg- 
ments of the limb linear, bearded on the inside and at 
the edges by coloured pointed hairs, upright, converging 
at the tips where they are slightly attached to each other: 
unexpanded limb a pentagonal prism; faux pentagonal 
with salient angles that are alternate with the segments 
of the limb. Colwmn contained within the ventricose base 
of the tube. Crown of one piece, 10-lobed, inserted at 
the top of the short stamineous tube: the five lobes. that 
alternate with the stamens are short, éntire, obtuse; and 
pouched at the base; the other five opposite to the an- 
thers, and in some sort inner ones, are. seyeral times 
longer, placed edgewise from centre to circumference, bend 
outwards, are falcately recurved, with the inner margin 
truncately channelled, and the outer sharpened to an edge. 
Anthers apart, ovate with lateral cells which open longi- 
tudinally, tipped by a short pointed fleshy appendage that 
lies upon the stigma. Pollen-masses minute, subglobular, 
attached above their base. Stigma pointless. 
From the Latin of Mr. Brown. 
