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occurrence. But for such assurance, we naight have thought 

 the plant which very recently flowered at Kew, and which 

 is minutely described below, had not completely developed its 

 inflorescence. This, however, was not the case. 



The remaining articles of the Decade have been communi- 

 cated from other collections and correspondents. One of 

 these, allied to Tetragonia, I have thought proper to erect into 

 a new genus ; nor will this be wondered at, amongst the al- 

 most hundred novelties which I have described in the re- 

 cent volumes of the Philosophical Magazine. 



Chelsea, Nov. 182G. A. H. Haworth. 



Decas octava Plantarum Novarum Succulentarum. 



Classis et Ordo. Pentandria Digynia. 



Genus, Cehopkgia Auctorum. 



stapeliceformis. C. (lurid trailing) ramis prostratis carnosis 



1. loreis luridis teretibus subaphyllis simplicibus fusco- 

 marmoratis. 



Habitat C. B. S. ubi invenit Dom. Bowie. G. H. Tj . 



Florehat in ditissimo regio horto Kewensi Julio, &c. 

 A.D. 1826. 



Obs. Habitus Stapeliarum (praecipue Orbearum Nob. 

 earumque crassitudine.) Rami 3 — 4-pedales tertio 

 anno, subtus parce tuberculatim asperiusculi. Folia 

 minutissima ternata remota fere invisibilia, h locis s. 

 basibus tumentibus persistentibus progredientia, om- 

 nino sessilia seu quasi ad caules adnata sine petiolo, 

 subrefracta cordata cuspidata pallida. Flares ex alls 

 foliolorum Stapeliarum modo, fere sessiles, at inci- 

 pientes inapertos vix semunciales solum vidi. 



Classis et Ordo. Hexandria Monogynia. 



BuLBiNE. Willd. Enum. 372. — Nob. in Revis. PL 

 Succ. 32. Corolla patens decidua. Filamenta bar- 

 bata. Sprengel. Syst. Veg. 2. 7. 

 bisulcata. B. (double-channelled bulbous) foliis pulposis 



2. longe subulatis acuminatis, utraque canaliculatis, ra- 

 dice magno bulboso. 



Habitat C. B. S. G. H. 1/ . 



Florebat in acre aperto in terra prope murum cum 



aspectu australi, in Novemb. A.D. 1825. Communi- 



cavit amicus Dom. R. Sweet, Horti Britannici, Gera- 



niuccarum, Cistineariim, Sfc. Sfc. ulilissimus auctor. 



New Series. Vol \. ^0.2. Feb. \ti27. R Obs. 



