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TESTUDINARIA elephantip^s. 
Hot^ofs Bread, 
DI^ECIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. DioscoREiE. 
TESTUDINARIA Salisb. — Pcrinitthium f)-parl ituin, jiatciis: luciniis 
linearibus subsequalibus. $ . Stamina 6, l)asi luciuianim iiisi ita. <^> . Styli 
3-coaliti. Capsula membranacea. Semina alala. Hi rl/ut ramis au/inis 
volubilibus, caudice maximo rimoso. Flores masculi racemosi muUi/lori, 
hsnunei sti^solitarii. 
T. elephantipes ; foliis reniformibus planis apiculatis utriiique coiirohiribiis. 
Tamus elephantipes. Ait.Kcw. ed. V. — ed. 2^ 5.386. Willd. sp.pL 4.112. 
Bot. Mn<j. 1347, $ . Pcrs. syn. 2.618. Link. cnum. 2.426. 
Testudinaria elephantipes. BurchelVs travels, 2.147. 
Omni parte rjlaberrima. Caudex maximus, subrotundus, siiberosus, 
cortice undique alte rimosd. Rami volubiles g?nciks. Folia altcnia, petio- 
lata, cordata, rcniformia, acuminata, apiculata, 1-nervia, avcnia, utrinrjtie 
pallide vireyitia, lucida. Flores dioivi, odorc debili, in(jrnto, primuin alhidi, 
post anthesin lutescentes. <J . Ract nii ( recti, nunc axillarcs, nnnc, ad /iodo:i, 
oppositifolii, multiflori, internodiis longiorcs, minu(is$i>nc pubcrnli. Pedi- 
celli basi ct apice bracteati, bracteis ovatis mint/ fix persistentibus. Perianthiiiin 
erectum, campanulatum, carnosum, limbo scxpartito rrjlexo : biciniis exl-ti- 
07'ibus linearibus acutis, interioribus lineari-spatidatis 7-etusis. Stamina 6, ad 
basin laciniarum inserta; dlsimeniis a lata basi snbidatis ; antheris andcis, 
subrotundis, bilocularibus, adnatis ; locidis scpto iucoinpleto longUudmaUter 
divisis. Pollen parvwn oblongum. Riidimentiim */////' trilobum. 
This vejgi remarka^^ plant was first introduced by 
the kte Mr. lW[asson, '^ho found it growing wild at the 
Cape of Good Hope. The plants which he sent to 
Kew having been males, the genus could not be ascer- 
tained satisfactorily; but from the resemblance of the 
male flowers to those of Tamus, it was referred to that 
genus till the females should be discovered. Afterwards 
when that sex was pfeiuced upon a plant which flowered 
at Mr. Joseph Knight's Nursery, the structure of the ovarium 
was considered to be the same as that of Tamus, and 
accordingly we find the female figured in the Botanical 
