The drawing was taken in Mr. Colvill’s hothouse, in the 
King’s Road; where the plant exceeded 14 or 15 feet in 
length, and divided into numerous branches, twined toge- 
ther by their growth in the way of a rope, on which a 
multitude of short lateral flowerbearing branchlets ap- 
peared in succession for two months together or more. 
The stem and lower part of the principal branches were 
destitute of leaves... 
The character of ‘ many-flowered racemes” has been in- 
truded by Willdenow upon the original specific definition of 
the species, and is incorrect; the branchlets being in fact ge- 
nerally 3-flowered, sometimes 5-flowered. A Guiana sample, 
the prototype of Aublet’s species, has been deposited in Mr. 
Brown’s Herbarium, where there is also another. from Tri- 
nidad, having somewhat narrower leaves. 
The foliage has been usually described as smooth, and 
- isso on the under side, but on the upper we could perceive 
a minute nap scarcely observable by the naked eye, and 
probably deciduous. The hairs that crown the mouth of 
the tube of the corolla, as well as those that beard the 
lower part of the interior, are numerously jointed. The 
stem and branches are of a flexible tough wood coyered 
with a smooth extremely pale bark. The shrub forms al- 
together an ornamental climber for the trellis and columns 
of a hothouse. 
