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CEROPEGIA STAPELIIFORMIS. STAPELIA-LIKE 
CEROPEGIA. 
KKK KKK KKK KEKE EKER KK EK 
Class and Order. 
PenTANDRIA DiGyniA. 
( Nat. Ord.—AscLepiaDEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Corona staminea exterior abbreviata, 5-loba ; interior 5- 
phylla, foliolis ligularibus indivisis. Masse pollinis basi 
affixe, marginibus simplicibus. Stigma muticum. Folli- 
cult cylindracei, leves. Semina comosa. Br. 
Specific Name and Character. 
CERoprcia stapeliiformis ; volubilis? aphylla ramosa, ramis 
teretibus dentibus mollibus spiniformibus subverticil- 
latis, floribus 1—2 e ramis propriis brevibus, corolle 
limbo intus hirsuto-tomentoso laciniis liberis recurvis 
carinatis, lobis corone staminee exterioris brevibus 
emarginatis, interioris elongatis filiformibus. 
Ceropreia stapeliiformis. Hort. Kew. 
This remarkable plant is probably a native of the East 
Indies, and was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden 
from the Royal Gardens of Kew, with the appropriate name 
here adopted. It flowers in the stove in April. — 
Descr. Stem, in our plant, about the thickness of one’s 
finger, full of a milky juice, rounded, glabrous, of a dark 
urid green colour, glabrous, marked with soft, spiniform 
processes, three in a whorl, each with two little points from 
within which the branches arise, these are long, slender, 
4pparently climbing, of a dark purple colour, and have the 
Soft, spine-like teeth above mentioned alternate and whorl- 
lowers one to two, from short branches. a 
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