The present species is not recorded in either edition of 
the Hortus Kewensis, and we believe has been very recently 
introduced. Native of Madagascar: much cultivated’in the 
Isle of France on account of the beauty of its flowers. The 
drawing was taken from a very perfect sample furnished by 
Messrs. Colville, who are in possession of a stock of the 
species, which they cultivate with success in the hothouse of 
their nursery in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
Since it was in vain to attempt the representation of the 
entire panicle of flowers of the natural size, even in a double 
plate, we have delineated a portion of it as large as in na- 
ture, subjoining the outline of the whole specimen in minia- 
ture. Being a very ornamental climber, a free flowerer, 
and of easy culture, we have no doubt it will before long be- 
come general in the stoyes of our collections. 
~ A smooth climbing shrub: branches round brachiate. 
Leaves opposite, petioled,. thickish or slightly coriaceous, 
oval, shortly acuminate or abruptly taper-pointed, quite 
entire, smooth, 3-4 inches long, two across or more, 
those immediately under the spikelets sharp-pointed. .Pa- 
nicles racemous, brachiate, outspread; peduncles 6 inches 
long or more; flowers scarlet, numerous, loosely scattered, 
every one with a setaceous bracte at the base of its pedicle, 
Calyx campanulate. Stamens 10, twice the length of the 
corolla. Seeds roundish, retuse, polished, of a shining gold: 
colour. 
‘The description is chiefly from Vahl, as we missed the 
opportunity of inspecting our specimen while fresh. 
The uncoloured outline in the plate shows the entire panicle of the in- 
florescence from which the drawing was taken, in miniature; the part 
which is coloured is a branch or racemelet of the same, of the natural 
size. 
