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ICONES PLANTAEUM. 



Hab 



Herb, Calcutt.') 



Caules tenues, volubiles. Folia 2-3 poll, longa, |-^ poll, lata, snb- 



coriacea, costa valida, nervis obscuris. 



Racemi ^-\ polL longi, oblongi. 

 poll, diametro. Gorollce lobi ovati. Columna majascula, 



2-4 



Flores 

 apicibns 



diam., tenniter coriacei. Semina oblongo-ovoidea, ^ poll, longa, con- 

 cavo-convexa, brunnea, coma 1 poll, longa. 



This Tery singular species was eommunicated to me by Dr. King, 

 from the Calcutta Herbarium, after the Asclepiadece had been pub- 

 hshed m the ' Flora of British India.' It belongs to the section defined 

 at vol. IV. p. 41 of that work, as having twining branches, glabrous 



cymes, and coronal processes without free points.— J. D. Hooker. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Staminal column. 3. Seed. All enlarged. 



