land as well as of the East Indies. We had no opportunity 
of describing the specimen we received, after the drawing 
was taken; but are obliged entirely to Mr. Herbert for 
what we have to say of the plant. 
Root perennial; stem suffrutescent, growing to about 
three yards in height. Leaves sessile, about an inch and a 
half long or upwards, decrescent, scarcely the third of an 
inch broad, enclosing the branch between the lobes at their 
base. Peduncles solitary, somewhat shorter than the leaf, 
slender upright, one flowered, rarely 2 or 3-flowered (sub- 
villous?) Bractes two, small, opposite, lanceolate, placed a 
little above the middle of the peduncle. Flowers straw- 
coloured, yellower at the plaits of the limb; fuwbe crimson 
on the inside; limb about 2 of an inch across: stigma green- 
ish : anthers cream-coloured. 
Cultivated in the stove, where it flowers from June 
to November, and ripens its seeds, which are of a pale brown 
colour, and about the size and shape of those of Irom@a 
coccinea. The ends of the branches are clipped in the 
winter, by which more abundant and stronger shoots 
are produced in the ensuing summer. 
