Sr eo ET 
Tas. 4349. 
CEROPEGIA CuminaIAna. 
Mr. Cuming’s Ceropegia. 
Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, basi magis minusve ventri- 
cosa, subinfundibuliformis, limbo laciniis compressis, ligulatis, erectis, seepius 
arcuatis apiceque coherentibus, haud rare ciliolatis ; preefloratione valvata. Co- 
rona staminea duplici serie campanulata v. rotata, 5-10-15-lobata, lobis antheris 
antepositis sepius longioribus, ligulatis, apice seepissime approximatis conniven- 
tibus. Anthere apice simplices, membrana destitute. Masse pollinis erectee, 
rotundate, margine interiori pellucide. Stigma muticum. Folliculi cylindracei, 
leves, pergamacei. Semina comosa, — Suffrutices ¢. potius herbe perennes 
Indice v. Africane, radice bulbosa, erecta carnose aphylle v. sepius volubiles fo- 
liose ; foliis haud raro carnosulis ; floribus paucis aggregatis v. subcorymbosis, 
virentibus purpureo-violaceo-maculatis, v. rarius concoloribus lutescentibus. DC. 
CEROPEGIA Cumingiana; volubilis glabra, foliis ovatis basi subcordatis apice 
longe attenuatis acutis tenuibus, pedunculis folium medium eequantibus 
plurifloris, sepalis acutis, corollee tubo clavato, limbi laciniis oblongis glabris 
apice cohzrentibus, coronz stam. pilose fol. extern. brevibus bifidis inter. 
ligulato-clavatis exteriora multo superantibus conniventibus. 
CERoPEGIA Cumingiana. Dene, in De Cand. Prodr. v.8. p.643. Cuming, Herb. 
Philipp. n. 447. 
Received from Java, by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, through 
their Collector, Mr. Thos. Lobb. This is clearly the same plant 
with Mr. Cuming’s No. 447, from Manilla, quite agreeing with 
his specimens in my Herbarium. The discrepancies in the de- 
scription of the staminal crown of the flower, by M. Decaisne, 
and that drawn up by me, may be accounted for from the altera- 
tion in that part of a fleshy flower by drying and pressure. A 
stove plant, flowering in August with Mr. Veitch. 
Duscor. A glabrous, climbing and twining plant, with terete, 
rounded stems, tinged with red. eaves opposite, on rather 
long, flexuose petioles, ovato-acuminate, somewhat membrana- 
ceous, cordate at the base, often tinged with brown and with 
the costa red. Peduncle reaching about as far as the middle of — 
the leaf, terminated by a cyme of eight to ten flowers. Pedicels 
with subulate bracteas at the base. Calyx deeply five-partite: _ 
JANUARY Ist, 1848. 
