Tab. 5407. 



CEROPEGIA Bowkeri. 



Bowkers Ceropegia. 



Nat. Ord. Asclepiade.^. — Pentandria Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5306.) 



Ceropegia Bowkeri; erecta glabra, caule tenui ancipiti simplici, foliis anguste 

 linearibus utrinque acutis internodio longioribus, pedunculis axillaribus uni- 

 flovis vix uncialibus, sepalis anguste linearibus, corolla? tubo tenuiter striato 

 urceolato inferne ventricoso, liinbi laciniis tubura sequantibus liberis lato- 

 linearibus plumoso-ciliatis intus villosis (cito arete reflexis) corona? staminea? 

 lobis exterioribus anguste triangularibus margine villosis, interioribus ligu- 

 laeformibus glabris duplo longioribus. Harvey. 



Ceropegia Bowkeri. Harvey, Thes. Capensis, v. 1. p. 9. t. 14. 



Remarkable as are the flowers of many species of the genus, 

 this is certainly not one of the least peculiar in the structure of 

 its flowers and the colour of its corolla. It is one of the many 

 discoveries in South Africa (Kreili's country, Caffraria) made by 

 Henry Bowker, Esq. j and dried specimens and living tubers 

 were communicated to Dr. Harvey, who published a good figure 

 in his valuable 'Thesaurus Capensis,' I.e. Mr. Bowker's spe- 

 cimens appear to have been preserved when the flowers were 

 not fully developed, and with the segments of the corolla erect ; 

 whilst in our living plants the segments are remarkably reflected, 

 so as almost to conceal the tubular portion of the flower. The 

 species flowered, in our Succulent Hoiis ,:, in 1863. 



Descr. Boot a rather depresso-globose tuber, from the crown 

 of which arises a very short stem, which soon (near the base) 

 divides into a few erect, slender, simple, subcom pressed branches, 

 giving the appearance of undivided stems a span to a foot high. 

 Leaves in rather distant opposite pairs, two to three inches long, 

 one to two lines wide, linear-subacute, sessile, becoming smaller 

 upwards. From the axils of the pairs of upper leaves, a short 

 peduncle, less than an inch long, bears a single flower. Calyx 



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