tenuis, in disco subcrustacea, ad marginem duplex diaphana, subintegra, 
undique venis brunneis, furcatis, distinctis pulcherrime radiata, ad hilum 
emarginata. Embryo ovatus, compressus, albus, inclusus in test interiore 
tenact, opacd, pallide luted, ab exteriore omnind liberd, nec etiam intra 
marginem membranaceum extensd, ad apicem tuberculo parvo paululim uni- 
laterali (chaluza?), ad basin in funiculo ipsd longiore tenur convoluto productd. 
Cotyledones, carnosi, compresst, subrotundi. Radicula parva, obtusa, hilo 
proxima. 
This splendid plant was first raised in 1824, by Mr. 
Tate, of the Sloane Street Nursery, from Mexican seeds 
communicated to him by R. P. Staples, Esq. Our draw- 
ing was made in Mr. Tate’s Nursery in July last. 
In Chili it becomes half-shrubby, and climbs all over 
the hedges and bushy plants in its vicinity, which it orna- 
ments with a profusion of lovely vermilion-coloured flowers, 
which appear at almost all seasons of the year. In this 
country its habits have been scarcely ascertained; it thrives 
in the open border, better than in a greenhouse, but the 
first frost destroys it.. Probably the treatment applied to 
Cobea scandens, would be the most suitable for it. We 
possess native specimens, sent from Mendoza, by our 
friend Dr. John Gillies. of 
M. Kunth has expressed some doubts of the capsule 
being really‘ unilocular, as that character appeared to be at 
variance with the structure common to other Bignoniace. 
But it will appear, from the above description, that it is, 
in its earliest state, strictly unilocular with two parietal 
placente; if, therefore, the single cell of Bignoniacew 
were an essential characteristic of that order, Eccremo- 
carpus would not be referrible to it. Let us, however, 
examine the ovarium of one of the commonest species of 
Bienoniacee, B. radicans. In this plant two fungous round- 
ish placente issue from the sides of the ovarium, and jut- 
ting out into the cavity, finally meet in the centre, and 
there become united; now, in Eccremocarpus, these pla- 
cente have- precisely the same fungous form, and derive 
their origin from the sides of the ovarium in like manner, 
but they do not extend far enough into the cavity to 
touch each .other, and, therefore, no cohesion takes place 
between them; whence the ovarium is unilocular. ; 
