 ceme of three to five flowers, which are maderately large, 
Tas. 4758. 
CEROPEGIA Tuwairest. 
Mr. Thwaites’s Ceropegia. 
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEZ.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4349.) 
Crerorreta Vuaitesii; volubilis glabra, foliis petiolatis cordato-ovatis acumi- 
natis tenuibus, racemis 3-5-floris folio longioribus, sepalis subulatis, corolla 
tubo infundibuliformi basi inflato-globoso, limbi laciniis oblongis glabris co- 
herentibus, corone staminex foliolis externis bipartitis laciniis subulatis 
one interioribus lineari-spathulatis erectis glabris exteriora duplo supe-- 
rantibus. 
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Apparently a new species of the singular genus Ceropegia, — 
seeds of which were received at Kew, from Ceylon, sent by 
our friend Mr. Thwaites, in 1851. The plants flowered in Sep- _ 
tember, 1853, and exhibit many points in common with C. 
Cumingiana, Dene., figured at our Tab. 4349. The chief diffe- 
rence, as may be expected, lies in the flower: here the corolla 
being very contracted near the middle of the tube, and at the | 
base singularly and suddenly inflated ; the markings and colour 
of the corolla too, are very different, as is the form of the sta- — 
minal crown. a 
Dzsor. The whole length of the plant before us is between 
two and three feet, moderately branched ; branches glabrous, 
terete, climbing. Zeaves opposite, on rather long petioles, ovate, 
acuminate, submembranaceous, glabrous, or only slightly ciliated 
at the margin, penninerved, entire, the zerves prominent beneath, : 
and the colour paler there. Young s/em and foliage often tinged 
with red. Petioles nearly an inch long, terete. Peduncles axil- 
lary, about as long as the petiole, and bearing an umbellate 7 
Calye ot five, sul 
/— ganvary Isr, 1854. 
