931 
GONOLOBUS maritimus. 
Seorshwre GmoMms, 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. or<L Asclepiadex. 
OONOLOSUS. %>ra vol 3. fol. 252, 
Div. Floribus umbellatis ; foliis pubescentibus. 
G. maritimus ; hirsutus, foliis cordatis acuminatis subtiis incano-tomentosis, 
umbellis sessilibus, laciniis corol^e^ ovatis acutis (obtusis) hirsutis. Sprengel. 
sy»t. vegetah. 1.846. 
Cynanchum maritunmy. Jacq. Anter. p, 85. 56. Liim. Mantitsaf 54. 
Willd.sp. 1.1255. 
Gonolobus maritimus. Brown m Act. Wem. \. p'. 35, Romer ^ SehMlte$^ 
sp. pi. 6.59. ' 
Frutex volvbiliSf hirsutus. Caules densk retrorsum tomentosi, teretes. 
Folia tomentosoy cordata, acuminata, sinu aperto, petiolo longitudine laminee. 
UmbellsB sessUes, pauciflorte, interpetiolares, petiolo breviores. Calyx 5-Jidus, 
pubescens, laciniis ovatis, obtusis, patentious. Corolla rotata, 5-partita, 
pmbescens, dorso et margine viridiores, disco purpurea ; laciniis ovatis, obtusis. 
Corona cyathiforpiis, viridis, \5-dentata; dentibus 5 sinubus corolleB oppo- 
sitis majoribus, infiexis, ciliatis. PoUinia didyma, medio affixa. OvVM 
dvo. Stylus unicus, exsertus, Jiliformis. Stigma obscure bilobum. 
An inelegant, twining, hairy, shrubby plant, found by 
Jacquin among bushes on the sea-shore of Tierra Bomba. 
In this country it requires to be cultivated in the stove, 
when it flowers in June and July. 
Our drawing was made in Mr. Colvill's Nursery, who 
received it from the Caraccas. Specimens from the Car- 
ribbee Islands, collected by De Ponthieu, and preserved 
in the Banksian Herbarium, perfectly agree with our culti* 
vated ^ant. 
Stems round, densely downy backwards. Leaves downy, 
cordate, acuminate, with the recess of the base open ; the 
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