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CENTROSTEMMA MULTIFLORUM. 
Many-flowered Centrostemma. 
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Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DieyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla 5-fida, abrupte reflexa, ngo- 
lanceolatis, fauce annulo piloso ornata. Gynostegium inferne angu sulca- 
tum, corollz faucem longe superans. Corona staminea summo gyno: 1 
5-phylla, foliolis dimidia superiori parte gynostegio adnatis stigma 
infer. in cornu calearatum productis. Anthere parve, membrana ov 
adpressa terminate. Masse pollinis erectee, oblong, basi et apice obtuse, com- 
presse. Stigma subdepressum, papilla acutiuscula, Styli elongati. Follreuls 
leeves, oblongi, attenuati. Semina comosa.—Frutices Moluccani, volubiles ; folia 
opposita, coriacea ; umbelle interpetiolares v. terminales, pedunculate, multiflore ; 
flores majusculi, pedicellis gracilibus habituque proprio. Decaisne. 
CentRosTeMMA multiflorum ; foliis oblongis vel lineari-oblongis acuminatis basi 
in petiolum attenuatis, corolle fauce annulo barbato albo cincta, corone 
staminez foliolis arcuato-recurvis acutis lobis superioribus brevioribus stig- 
ma super acutis. Decaisne. 
CENTROSTEMMA multiflorum. Dene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1838, v. 9. p. 272, et in 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 634. Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. p. 43. : 
Hoya multiflora. Bl. Cat. Hort. Buitenz. p. 49. 
Cyrroceras Lindleyanum. Dene. in De Cand. 
Crrroceras floribundum. Maund’s Botani. 
Hoya coriacea. Lind. Bot. Reg. 1839, ¢. 
Drawn from a fine plant which flowered at Messrs. Hugh 
Low and Son’s Nursery, Clapton, in July, 1859, having been 
received from Borneo. The leaves seem to be subject to a little 
variation; those on the specimen represented by Mr. Bemnett 
being longer and narrower, and especially attenuated from near 
the middle to the base: but the three figures I have quoted 
seem all to belong to one and the same species, though pub- 
lished under as many different names. Yet Decaisne records 
two supposed species, and Blume as many as four, apparently 
established on very slight grounds. ‘The genus, itself but 
MAKCH Ist, 1860. 
