from the mouth of the faux as there. The excrescences which 
are seen on the stem, especially near the knots where the 
leaves issue, and which have been usually held to be spines, 
seem to us in both varieties mere sprouting radicles, such as 
are met with in other plants that grow along the ground as 
this sometimes does. In the Banksian Herbarium there is 
specimen of our variety, which had flowered in some collec- 
tion in this country many years ago, . 
_ Asmooth annual plant. Stem sometimes twining, some- 
times sarmentose, reddish. Leaves broadly cordate of 
sometimes variously angular, acuminated, with longishly 
tapered mucronate points, from 3 to 5 inches long; petiole 
nearly of the same length, firm. Peduncles axillary, thick, 
short, 1-3-flowered; pedicles fleshy clavately thickened, 
thickening with the growth fruit, and ultimately refracted 
together with that, bearing generally a small close-pressed 
bracte at the base. Calyx many times shorter than the 
tube; leaflets ovately lanceolate, converging, fleshy along 
the middle with a sharp keel, sides widish, membranous, 
acuminate. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube 2-4 inches long, 
ending in a shorter rather wider faux, together with which it 
is as long again as the limb; Jdimb from 2 to 4 inches in 
diameter, nearly flat, very shallowly 5-lobed, lobes broadly 
tapered mucronate. Stamens either rising a little above the 
mouth of the faux, or remaining within it. Stigma capitate, 
granular, slightly 4-cleft. Capsule bilocular, 4-seeded. 
The drawing was taken from a sample which flowered in 
Mr. Herbert's hothouse at Spofforth. Both varieties are 
matives of the West Indies. The white one, of Carolina and 
Georgia as well as the West Indies, 
