sent me a bundle of the roots, which resembled liquorice- 
root, but had lost all flavour and virtue; and in 1869 I had 
the pleasure of receiving from ‘him living roots in a Ward’s 
case, which grew vigorously, and the plant being trained up 
the rafters of a moderate sized warm greenhouse, was soon 
thickly covered with leaves, and flowered in August 1870. 
As far as I can determine, the Mundi belongs to a very 
distinct genus of Asclepiads from any hitherto published, 
though allied to the Indian Brachylepis, to which I have — 
given the name of Chlorocodon, in allusion to the bell-like 
green flowers. It is to be hoped that experiments on the 
properties of the root will be instituted in Natal, and the 
results made known. 
Descr. A tall, leafy, twining, deep green climber. Stems 
terete, glabrous, or nearly so. Leaves opposite, shortly 
petioled, six to ten inches long, broadly oval-oblong, abruptly 
acuminate, cordate at the base, minutely setulose on both 
surfaces ; midrib with often a few erect short bristles on the 
upper surface. Pedioles short, joined by a thick short stipule- 
like sheath with reflexed and toothed edges. Flowers three- 
quarters of an inch diameter, in axillary corymbose many- 
flowered cymes ; pedicels stout, with small bracts at the base. 
Calyz-lobes small, ovate, acute. Corolla between rotate and 
campanulate, leathery, green; segments ovate, acute, purple 
towards the base internally, where there is a thickened ring, 
swelling into 5-notched lobes that are opposite the sepals ; 
at the back of each lobe and adnate to it, is a slender, erect, 
flat, notched process. Anthers triangular ovate, meeting in a 
cone over the capitate stigma. Pollen contained in five 
slender brown burse, that open in front, are bifid at the point 
and grooved down the back, and attached at the base to an 
ovate gland.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower, with the corolla cut away; 2 and 3, pollen pouches :— 
both magnified, 
