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and terminating in an obtuse point, very thickly covered with 
a yellow impalpable powder. 
This plant is common all along the Coromandel Coast, 
growing in almost any soil, and flowering during the greater 
part of the year. The leaves, peeled and dipped i in oil, are much 
esteemed by the natives as a discutient in the early stages of 
boils; when the disease is more advanced, they are employed 
in the same way to promote suppuration. - 
SuPPL. Tas. I. Hoya viridiflora. Fig. 1, Staminal crown. 
Fig. 2, Essential organs of the flower, the crown being 
removed :—magnijied. Fig. 3, Follicles :—»natural size. 
IT. 
CEROPEGIA BULBOSA. 
PEgNTANDRIA Dicvwia. Nat. Ord. AscrEPIADEXE. 
Gen. Cuar. Corona staminea exterior abbreviata, 5-loba, 
foliolis ligularibus indivisis. Masse pollinis basi affixee, 
marginibus simplicibus. Stigma muticum.  Foiliculi 
cylindracei, leves. Semina comosa. Br. 
Ceropegia bulbosa ; pedunculis umbellatis, foliis ovatis car- 
nosis, limbo corollae hirsuto, coron: laciniis longioribus 
subulatis apice incurvis, brevioribus subbicornubus. 
(Surrr. Tax. II.) 
Ceropegia bulbosa. Roxb. Cor. v. 1. t. 7. Willd. Sp. PLv. t, 
p- 1275. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Fast ete 8 engen 
Veget. v. 1. p. 842. — 
Root, an orbicular flattened fuer. UN Batactons, pien- 
nial, twining, round, smooth. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
very smooth and succulent, varying much in form, assuming 
on the same plant almost every figure between lanceolate and 
orbicular, but usually terminating in a sharp point. Flowers 
umbelled; peduncles lateral, shorter than the leaves: pedicels 
furnished at the base with scaly bracteas. Calyx 5-partite. 
Corolla tubular, ventricose at the base, narrower upwards, 
and then suddenly enlarging at the limb, and 5-cleft; divisions 
clavate, erect, arched inwards at the apex, where > unite; 
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