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SARCOSTEMMA (Philibertia) campanulatum. 
Bell-shaped Sarcostem. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AsCLEPIADACER. (ASCLEPIADS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 623.) 
_ SARCOSTEMMA, R. Br.— Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla rotata plus 
minusve alte 5-fida y. urceolato-rotata, sinuato-5-loba, lobis interdum denti- 
culis interjectis. Corona staminea duplex monadelpha, exterior cyathiformis 
v. annularis crenata, gynostegio v. corolla tubo plus minusve adnata ; interior 
5-phylla, foliolis carnosis rotundatis acuminatis, exteriorem superans. An- 
there membrana terminate. Masse pollinis clavato-cylindracee, apice 
affixee, pendule. Stigma apiculatum, apiculo obscure emarginato. Folliculi 
graciles laeves. Semina carnosa.-——Suffrutices erecti v. scandentes aphylli v. 
Joliosi, foliis linearibus v. cordatis; flores lare umbellati, umbellis lateralibus 
interpetiolaribus v. terminalibus; corolle albe, flave, variegata v. purpureo- 
guttate.—Genus quamvis habitu, et prima fronte, corollae forma varia hete- 
rogeneum, tamen propter corone stamineze fabricam in speciebus variis unam 
et eamdem, mea quidem sententia, naturale atque individuum.— Decaisne in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 537. 
$ PHILIBERTIA, Kunth. (Leaves cordate. Corolla urceolate-rotate, with 
5 sinuous lobes, spotted. 
S. campanulatum ; volubile, pubescens, foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis altě 
cordatis basi feré clausis subtus tomentosis, pedunculis folio brevioribus 
multifloris, corollis campanulatis glabris extus pubescentibus lobis erectis 
acuminatis, c. st. ext. fauci adnatá int. foliolis oblongis obtusis columnam 
feré eequantibus, stigmate prominente bilobo. 
For this new and very distinct species we are indebted to 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Exeter, who sent specimens in 
October last. Our memorandum gives no information of its 
native country, but we presume it to be Peru. 
Its broad cordate leaves, and large yellow campanulate 
flowers, are strikingly different from those of other previously 
described Sarcostems, to which M. Decaisne reduces the 
Philibertias. More especially the base of the leaves being very 
deeply heart-shaped, with the lobes almost overlapping, is 
very different from what is found in S. solanoides and gran- 
diflorum. 
