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Ceropecia WicutTi. Dr. Wient’s 
CEROPEGIA. 
Class and Order. 
PeNTANDRIA DiayniA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Asc eEpiapEa. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla basi ventricosa, lobo infundi- 
buliformi, limbi laciniis conniventibus ligulatis. Corona 
staminea duplex (?): interioris foliola lobis exterioris oppo- 
sita. Anthere apice simplices. Stigma muticum. Foili- 
culi cylindracei leves. Semina comosa.—Suffrutices vel 
herbe volubiles. Wight. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Crrorecia Wightii ; volubilis glaber, radice bulbosa, foliis 
ovatis acutis carnosis, corolle tubo basi inflato-globoso 
limbi 5-fido laciniis linearibus lanuginosis approxima- 
tis, lobis corone staminez exterioris integris interio- 
ribus alternantibus, interioris carnosis lateraliter com- 
pressis albidis recurvis exteriori duplo longioribus. 
Wight. 
Ceroreeia Wightii. Graham MSS. 
Descr. The whole plant glabrous, twining, fleshy. Root 
bulbous. Leaves opposite, ovate, acute, succulent, about an 
inch long, three or four lines broad, and often nearly as 
thick. Umbels lateral, few-flowered. Calyx five-parted, 
lacinie acute. Corolla about an inch long; tube slender, 
globular at the base, widening at the border, five-cleft ; 
lacinie approximated for their whole length, narrow, linear, 
purple, (or dark green, H.) densely woolly. Organs of frue- 
tification concealed in the inflated part of the tube, and sur- 
rounded by the Corona, the exterior lobes of which are 
ovate, entire, and alternate with the interior; these latter 
are erect, somewhat fleshy, about twice the length of the 
exterior series, laterally compressed, white, (stained with 
deep rose-colour) and from about the middle upwards 
curved 
