Tab. 5481. 

 arauja angustifolia. 



Narrow-leaved Arauja. 



Nat. Orel. Asclepiade^e. — Gynandria Pentandria. 



Gen. Char. Sepala latiuscula, persistentia, accrescentia. Corolla campanu- 

 lata, tubo inferne ventricoso, limbo 5-fido, lobis conniventibus v. reflexis. Corona 

 staminea inclusa, subcoronaeformis, 5-pbylla ; foliolis dorso corolla; tubo adnatis. 

 Gynostegium sessile v. subsessile. Anthera membrana terrainatae. Polliuia 

 corapresso-clavata, funiculis latiusculis. Stigma bifidum, laciniis hinc planis. 

 Ovula plurima. Folliculi patentes, coriaceo-rugosi. Semina carnosa. — Suffru- 

 tices volubiles, Americani. Folia bad glandulifera. Pedunculi axillares v. extra- 

 axillares, \-pluriJlori,jioribus cymosis v. racemosis. Corolla? suaveolentes. Becne. 

 in Be Cand. Prodr. — Physianthus, Mart, et Zucc. Bot. Mag. t. 3201. 



Arauja angustifolia ; glaberrima ; caulibus gracilibus, foliis anguste lanceolato- 

 hastatis v. e basi late auriculato anguste et longe lineari-subulato acumi- 

 nata, medio albo-lineata, subtus glauca, auriculis transversis obtusissimis, 

 pedunculis 1-rloris, corolla cylindraeeo-campanulata, lobis patenti-recurvis 

 ovatis acutis. 



Arauja angustifolia. Becne. in Be Cand. Prodr. v. S.p. 534. 



Physianthus angustifolius. Hook, et Am. Joum. Bot. 1834. p. 292. 



Arauja Megapotamica. Bon, Gen. Syst. Gard. v. 4. p. 149. 



Physianthus Megapotamicus. Spr. Syst. App. 111. 



A graceful, rather glaucous climber, of which seeds were re- 

 ceived at the Royal Gardens from M. Gibert, of Montevideo, 

 from whom also we have dried specimens collected near that 

 town. The plant was discovered in the forests of Uruguay, by 

 Tweedie, from whom we received the originally-described speci- 

 mens, and others since then from Sir C. J. F. Bunbey, Bart., 

 collected by the late Mr. Fox. 



Descr. A slender, graceful climber, everywhere quite gla- 

 brous ; the stems, branches, and leaves below more or less 

 glaucous. Leaves one to one and a half inch long, variable in 

 breadth, usually more or less halbert-shaped, consisting at the 

 base of two broad, spreading, rounded, obtuse lobes, and a long, 

 straight, narrow, acuminate, middle lobe, bright-green above, 



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