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gathered in the East Indies by Koenig. The one from. 
which the drawing is made, was raised by Mr. Herbert at 
Spofforth, from seed which that gentleman informs us came 
from China, under the vernacular name we have quoted. It 
is not to be traced in any recorded species, and most probably 
has been now first introduced into our European gardens, 
_ detrings the summer. 
The plaut is twining and perennial; blossoms plentifully and 
in long; succession during the winter, rarely and sparingly 
Stem slender, round; branches filiform, spirally streaked, 
in some parts roughish to the touch, owing toa minute warty 
or granular efflorescence. Leaves nearly in one rank, wide, 
set, smooth, oblong, cordate, angularly acuminated, general, 
dy. undivided, at times faintly three-lobed below the middle, 
‘often repand and more or less denticulated, about an inch 
and one third in length, nearly 2 of one broad at the widest 
part, middle nerve branching each way horizontally: petiole 
sometimes nearly equal to the leaf, often much shorter, 
slender, grooved on the upper side, groove minutely villous, 
Peduncles solitary, axillary, round, nearly upright, firm, 
thicker than the petiole; upper ones shorter than the leaf, 
terminated by a short trichotomously three-flowered cyme 
(having generally only one flower with us from the failure of — 
‘the two of the sides before they expand); lower ones 3-4~ 
times longer than the leaves, generally with a 7-flowered 
eyme, and usually with one flower sessile in the fork of the 
trichotomy; pedicles 5-6 times shorter than the peduncle. 
Calyx carapanulate, thickish, of a subcartilaginous hard- 
ness, green, very smooth, shot or rayed longitudinally with 
numerous dark streaks, which are slightly divergent near 
the toy, leaflets broadly cuneate, straight, truncatedly re- 
tuse vith a mucro or point in the centre of the sinus; twoa 
slightly fringed at the upper edge. Corolla yellow, hypo- 
cra‘veriform, on the outside of the tube and of the plaits of 
the limb of a reddish tawny colour, streaked with paler 
Vines: tube higher than the calyx, pubescent near the bottom 
on the inside: limb rotate, about half an inch in diameter, 
- younded without the appearance of any angle, lobes exceed- 
ingly shallow emarginated or notched. _ Anthers ovately 
oblong. Stigma granulated, globular, elevated much ‘above 
' the anthers, 
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