28 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, Ceropegia. 
Leaves obovate, short-petioles, fleshy. Umbels short- 
peduncled, few-flowered. , 
_Teling, Manchi, viz. good Mandu. Hae 
It grows amongst bushes in hedges, &c. on dry, barren, 
uncultivated ground and flowers during the hot sea- 
son. : 
Root tuberous, a little flattened like a turnip, with 
several fibres from its base ; itis about as large asa 
small apple. Stems twining, herbaceous, smooth, succu- 
lent ; from 2 to 4 feet long. Leaves opposite, short-petiol- 
ed, obovate, with a small point, entire, fleshy, size vari- 
ous. Umbels lateral, lengih of the leaves, peduncled few-- 
- flowered, direction various. Flowers pretty large, erect ; 
tube greenish ; border purple. Calyx five-toothed ; tooth- 
lets acute, permanent. Corol one-petalled ; tube swelled’ 
at the base, contracted about the middle, enlarging from 
thence into a bell-shaped mouth. Border five-parted ; 
segments linear, downy, purple, erect, tops united, gaping 
at the sides. Nectary ; its body is already described in the — 
preliminary observations ; from each of its five divi- 
sions, rises a curved. tapering, filiform, sterile filament, of 
about half the length of the tube. Anthers five pair, rest- 
ing on the black pointed angles of the common stigma. 
(Corpus truncatum.) Germs two united. Styles two, 
united, short, thick. Stigma common large, peltate, five- 
cornered, before the flower opens these corners adhere 
firnily to five, incurved, yellow glandular parts of the nec- 
tary, and between them are the anthers. It requires some 
force to separate them, to have a view of the anthers ; 
when the flower is afterwards fully blown,. they separate 
of themselves, the anthers are then seen poised, asit were, 
on the five black, pointed angles of the stigma... riieliicles . 
two, slender, singly about 3 or 4 inches long, 
Every part of this plant is eaten by the natives, either 
raw or stewed in their cuties, The Balertione” on | 
a raw turnip, 
