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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 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. Tab. I. Hoya viridiflora. Fig. 1, Stamina! crown. 

 Fig. 2, Essential organs of the flower, the crown being 

 removed : — magnified. Fig. 3, Follicles : — natural size. 



II. 



CEROPEGIA BULBOSA. 

 Pentandria Digynia. Nat. Ord. AscLEPiAOEiE. 



Gen. Char. Corona staminea exterior abbreviata, 5-1 oba, 

 foliolis ligularibus indivisis. Massce pollinis basi affixse, 

 marginibus simplicibus. Stigma muticum. Folliculi 

 cylindracei, lasves. Semina comosa. Br. 



Ceropegia bulbosa ; pedunculis umbellatis, foliis ovatis car- 

 nosis, limbo corollse hirsuto, coronas laciniis longioribus 

 subulatis apice incurvis, brevioribus subbicornubus. 

 (SuppL. Tab. II.) 



Ceropegia bulbosa. Roxb. Cor. v. \. t. 7. Willd. Sp. PL v. 1. 

 p. 1275. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 6. p. 2. Spretig. Syst. 

 Veget. v. \. p. 842. 



Root, an orbicular flattened tuber. Stem herbaceous, peren- 

 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 they unite ; 



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