In the Icones of Jacquin we find a figure of this Epidendrum, under the appellation we have adopted, but evidently taken from a dried specimen, with a reference to the Icones of Father Plumier 182, fig. 1. under the title of Heleborine; but on comparison we find no affinity sufficiently powerful to induce us to regard them as representing the same plant. In Plumier’s figure there is no incisure at the end of the leaves, a specific character in our plant; the rest of the figure is also too obscure to admit of comparison. The plant, from its long and slender stalks, acquires a graceful bend when in flower. As a native of Jamaica it requires the tan-bed of the hot-stove for its protection; and, like many other tropical plants, is subject to lose much of its beauty by the loss of the leaves on the lower part of the stem. Our figure was made from the Hibbertian Collection. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCXLVI. DOLICHOS HIRTUS. _Hairy-stemmed Dolichos._ CLASS XVII. ORDER IV. _DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA._ Chives in two sets. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. VEXILLUM callis duobus ad basin, parallelis, oblongis, alis subtus comprimentibus. STANDARD with two callosities at the base; parallel, and of an oblong form; the wings beneath binding together. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. DOLICHOS hirtus; caule volubili, tecto ferrugineis pilosis; floribus luteis striatis rubris; foliis ternatis; foliolis sub-cordatis, subtus pilosis; stipulis duabus ad basin; radice tuberosa. DOLICHOS with a hairy stem: the stalk is twining, and covered with rusty hairs: flowers are yellow, and striped with red: leaves ternate; leaflets nearly heart-shaped, and hairy beneath, with two stipulæ at their base: root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The cup. 2. The standard. 3. One of the wings shown from the inside. 4. The keel. 5. The chives and pointal. 6. The chives spread open. 7. The seed-bud and pointal. This handsome twining plant was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope to the gardens of G. Hibbert, esq. about the year 1802, and flowered very luxuriantly, but did not perfect any of its seeds nor make any approach towards it, as the flowers with their empalements all fell off together immediately after flowering; and for the last three or four years the plant (although apparently in a healthy state) has not indicated the least appearance of bloom; and we are inclined to think it might possibly succeed better with the careful treatment of the dry stove than with its present situation in the hot-house; and if upon experiment it should prove successful, it would then doubtless become a plant in request by many cultivators who whilst it remains a hot-house plant cannot give it a place in their collection. This genus approaches so near to that of Phaseolus, that we cannot help thinking one generic title would have been sufficient for them both. [Illustration]