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24. SARCOCYPHULA, Harv. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate. Corona cup-shaped, 5- 
erenate, with swellings (as if saccate) between the crenatures. 
Anthers membrane-tipped. Pollinia ovoid, pendulous, fixed 
at the apex. Stigma depressed. Follicles ?—TZhes. Cap. t. 
191. 
S. Gerrardi, H., is a leafiess, succulent, branching climber, with the 
habit of Sarcostemma viminale (with which it sometimes grows intermixed !), 
but from which it differs in the simple corona, not very unlike that of 
a Cynoctonum.—Natal. 
25. SARCOSTEMMA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, more or less deeply 5-fid, 
or urceolate-rotate, sinuately 5-lobed, the lobes sometimes 
with interposing teeth. Corona double, the outer cup-shaped 
or annular, crenate, more or less attached to the gynostege or 
to the corolla-tube, inner 5-leaved; folioles fleshy, roundish, 
acuminate, longer than the outer corona. Anthers membrane- 
tipped. Pollinia club-shaped, pendulous. Stigma apiculate. 
Follicles slender, smooth.— DC. Prod. viii. p. 587. 
Erect or climbing, leafless or leafy shrubs. The 2 Cape species are leaf- 
less, with jointed, succulent stems and rotate corollas. Flowers in lateral 
umbels. 
26. DHIMTA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted. eCorolla rotate. Corona double; outer 
short, annular, sinuate, 10-parted, the alternate lobules small ; 
inner 5-leaved ; folioles below somewhat spurred, above pro- 
longed into a subulate, inflexed point. Anthers membrane- 
tipped. Pollinia compressed, taper-pointed, pendulous. Stigma 
pointless or convex in the middle. Follicles smooth or clothed 
with soft shreds.\— DC. Prod. vii. p. 54:3. 
Voluble plants, with opposite, cordate leaves. Peduncles axillary, elon- 
gate. Flowers racemose ; corolla-lobes ciliate——1 Cape species, near the 
mouth of Orange River. 
27. ENDOTROPIS, Endl. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-fid, the segments 
spreading, papillose within. Corona monophyllous, 5-fid, the 
segments opposite the anthers, furnished on the inside with a 
short process or tooth, and separated by a wide sinus, promi- 
nent outwards. Anthers membrane-tipped. Pollinia round- 
ish, pendulous. Stigma somewhat pointed, 2-lobed. Follicles 
smooth, hoary, taper-pointed.—DC. Prod. viii. p. 546. 
Climbing or trailing plants, with cordate leaves. Flowers umbelled, 
axillary.—1 Cape species, Eastern. 
