‘transmitted to us, one had an upright, the other a resupi- 
nate or reversed flower, in both which positions we have 
shown it in the plate. Persoon having ranked the species 
in the present genus, of which a resupinate flower has been 
made an essential characteristic, we are led to suppose that 
he must have been determined in his decision by observing 
at least some of the flowers thus disposed on Monsieur Tur- 
pin’s specimen from Porto Rico, for there are none shown 
in this way by Plumier’s figure. But for that feature, we 
should think it would have been preferably arranged under 
Donicuos. Perhaps, however, when the two genera have un- 
dergone the reform they are known to require, this species 
will not be allotted to either? 
With the samples of the blossom we received also the 
shell of the pod from which the seed that produced them 
was taken, and have been thus enabled to identify the 
plant beyond a doubt. It is among the most ornamental 
of the tribe. Requires to be kept in the hothouse, where it 
winds itself to the height of 12 or 14 feet, and produces its 
bloom at the upper part of the bractes during the months 
of October and Noyember. 
A twining suffrutescent perennial; stem.at the lower 
part twice as thick as a finger, deeply furrowed, with 
flexuose corky ridges; branches round, and nearly smooth. 
Leaves about half a foot long, membranous, neryed, bright 
green; terminal leaflet roundishly ovate, rhomboidal at the 
lower part, shortly and abruptly pointed, three inches in 
length, side-ones twice narrower, oblong, shortly acumi- 
nated, with unequal sides: general petiole about three inches 
long, jointed where it joins the branch, as are the partial 
ones where they join with it: general stipules opposite 
oyately oblong sharp-pointed, partial ones subulate. Pe- 
duncles axillary, 1-2-3, but of unequal lengths, ascendent or 
divaricate and reclining, stiff, villous, much, or but little, 
shorter than the common petiole, reddish, terminated by a 
short panicle of 5 or more flowers, with two? bractes at the 
base of the same form as the stipules but smaller. Flowers 
large, purple and white, upright or reversed, downy on the 
outside. Calyx shallow, thin, pale green, campanulate, 
bilabiately 5-cleft or nearly so, with a downy fringed 
edge; one lip very short, repand with 3 faint indentations, 
the middle tooth nearly obsolete: the other lip much the 
longest, 3-nerved 3-cleft, with acuminated segments, of 
which the middle one is mn longer thon the two very 
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