Tas. 5306. 
CEROPEGIA Ga RDNERI. 
Mr, Gardner's Ceropegia. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEH.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla tubulosa, basi magis minusve 
ventricosa, subinfundibuliformis ; Zimdi laciniis compressis, ligulatis, erectis, seepius 
arcuatis apiceque cohwrentibus, haud raro ciliolatis ; prefloratione valvata. 
Corona staminea duplici serie campanulata vel rotata, 5-15-lobata; lobis antheris 
antepositis seepius longioribus, ligulatis, apice seepissime approximatis, conniventi- 
bus. Anthere apice simplices, membrana destitute. Masse pollinis erect, ro- 
tundate, margine interiore pellucide. Stigma muticum. oiliculi cylindracei, 
leves, pergamacei. Semina comosa.—Suffrutices vel potius herbe perennes, 
Indica. De Cand. 
Cerorecia Gardneri; volubilis glabra, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis, pedunculis 
petiolo subquilongis paucifloris, calycis lobis linearibus, corolla ad tubi 
basin parum inflata supra medium subito valde ampliata apice aperte 5- 
crumenata margine ciliata, coronee staminee lobis exterioribus linearibus 
acutis, interioribus multo longioribus latioribusque et apice reflexis, folliculis 
longiusculis teretibus. Thw. 
Ceropeaia Gardneri. Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. p. 199. 
A native of Ceylon, introduced by the Messrs. Veitch and 
Sons to their Nurseries at Exeter and Chelsea, and undoubtedly 
the C. Gardneri of our friend Mr. Thwaites’s valuable ‘ Enu- 
meratio,’ above quoted. It was first detected by Mr. Gardner 
(whose name it bears), at Rambaddo, at an elevation of from 
4000 to 5000 feet, and it well deserves a place in our collections. 
Mr. Thwaites aptly compares it with the Ceropegia elegans of 
Wallich, from the Nilgherries, figured at our Tab. 3015 of this — 
work; but a slight glance at that figure will serve to justify Mr. 
‘Thwaites in his further remark, that “it can scarcely be a variety 
of it.” It is indeed infinitely more ornamental than that, with 
larger leaves and larger flowers, twice the size of those of elegans. 
In the state of the bud there is a most striking difference when 
the lobes of the corolla are folded in, in a very remarkable man- 
ner, so as to present five spreading lobes like the lobes of a star- 
fish, or still more like the expanded corolla of a Sapelia. Then 
again, in the fully-developed corolla (we can hardly say expanded, 
APRIL lst, 1862. 
