Plate 2387. 



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STROBOPETALUM CAR]S'OSUM, N. E. Br. 



ASCLEPIADE.E, Tribe Cynanche^. 

 S. carnosum, K E. Brown in Kew Bullet, 1894, 390_; sufli'utex 



prostratus v. laxe scandens, glaber, foliis petiolatis carnosulis ovato y 

 oblongo-ellipticis v. fere rotundatis obtusis retusis v. acutis luucronatib 

 basi roturdatis v. in ramis sterilibus macrophyllis plus minus corcl.itis, 

 floribus axillaribus, in cymis sub.sessilibus pauci^ v. plunfloris dispositis 

 pedicellatis, corolLe tubo calyce 2-plo lon-iore tububso-ranipnnulato 

 iiitus argenteo-sericeo segmcntis limbi linearibus apice oblique acuwiis 

 tubo longiorlbus, corona; squaniis lanceolatis ad mednim gynosiej,ii 

 iuliiatis apice liboris dorsallter conipressia anthens fere ajquilongis. 



Hab. 



180). 



?/i 



, Hami sjBpe elongati, tcretes. Folia in ramis stenlibus 1^ -j F • 

 O'^ga, 1-1^^ poll, lata; in rannilis flcriferis sa^pius ^''''^''^fj^lllZ 

 onga, H poll. lata'; petiolus 1-7 lin. longus. Bractm nnr^he, 

 l^anceolate. Pedicdli \-2 lin. longi. Flares viridescentcs, e.pau. 

 3~| poll. diam. 



The leaves in our dried specin.ens show their fl^^^^>; PI^T^^^^tfon 

 ;i;oulded over nunierous roundish concretions wl.ich P^«';^'^'^> ^.^^ n,^ 

 the drying up of the tissue after soakh.g in alcohol, iir^ v 



points out the near affinity of this genus to ^oUatropu^^^ 

 f«yona] lobes are laterally compressed, '^'''^^^f ^'ifjf ./'' S) tc-ether 

 l^^ed in an earlier number of the Bulletin for l^'^^.l^" j^^^^^^^^^ 

 Jth the generic diagnosis. I much doubt the specific distinct 



the two species.— D. Olivek. 



^ Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Expaiulcl flowor. 3. Gyn<)stege ^ith corona. - ^ 

 ^*>ronaI lobes removed. 5. TuUcu. Ad cnlarijcd. 



