account of its affinity to 1. coracea, from which it is however 
abundantly distinct, as will be seen by a reference to the latter 
plant figured at our Tab. 4518. 
Duscr. A climber with terete stems and branches, rooting near 
the insertion of the petioles, bearing opposite /eaves, on rather 
short but very thick petioles; varying from six inches to a 
foot in length, singularly thick, and firmly fleshy, subcoria-— 
ceous, elliptical, very glabrous and even, the margins recurved, 
the apex rather acute, the base emarginate or subcordate, dark 
green and glossy above, pale and opake beneath, where the mid- 
rib is very broad and prominent ; lateral veins scarcely at all visible 
except the leaf be held between the eye and the light, when 
they are seen to be pinnated, distant, slender, anastomosing to- 
wards the margin. Peduwacle much shorter than the leaves, mo- 
derately stout, thickened at the base, bearing at the apex a dense 
umbel of rather large, brownish-red flowers. Sepals five, oval, 
concave. Corolla rotate, pale buff, with five red-brown blotches, 
five-lobed, the lobes triangular, silky, reflexed. Leaflets of the 
corona pale buff, rotundato-ovate, thick, fleshy, concave above 
with a blood-red spot at the base, grooved beneath. Ovaries 
two, oblong. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and ovaries. 2. Flower :—magnified. 
