The species, according to Jacquin, comes from the pro- 
vince of Caraccas in South America. In the plant that 
flowered at Vienna, the panicles were short and the pe- 
duncles generally trichotomous and 3-flowered, in Mr. Cat- 
ley’s plant the panicle was long, but the two side flowers 
on each peduncle were almost always abortive, and the 
main peduncle had no side branches like the specimen 
figured in Jacquin’s work. 
A high climbing shrub: branches round, roughened, as 
well as the main petioles and peduncles, with ferruginously 
coloured excrescences. Leaves opposite, conjugate, cir- 
those: main petiole thick firm round an inch long; partial 
ones smooth half an inch long: leaflets ovate or ovately lan- 
ceolate, entire, pointed, veiny, firm and slightly coriaceous, 
deep green and bright above, paler underneath and ribbed, 
from 6 inches to a foot and a half long, 4-9 inches broad : 
the back of the apex of the main 
tendril simple strong, at : 
petiole, (this is sometimes converted into a leaflet, when the 
leaf becomes ternate, instead of conjugate and cirrhose.) Pa- 
nicles terminal between two leaves, generally in threes or 
trichotomous, the middle much the largest, with 3-flowered ~ 
peduncles: bractes single linear subulate, one to every pe- 
dicle. Calyx short and tubular, obsoletely 5-toothed, green, 
‘sometimes suffused with purple, cleft on one side. Corolla 
deep yellow, nearly 3 inches long, smooth, without scent: 
tube very short, constricted above the calyx, having a 
shaggy ring on the ‘nside at the mouth where the stamens 
are inserted: faux very long, much wider, _ compressed ; 
limb bilabiate, widespread ; segments roundish, equal, 3 
ower subundulate, middlemost of these crenate. The fifth 
_stamen, a mere rudiment. Germen stalked, standing on a 
circular fleshy disk. 
We have trusted chiefly 
of the species; having misse 
the fresh blossom. 
to Jacquin for the description 
d the opportunity of inspecting 
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