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NATURAL ORDER, ASCLEPIADACE® : 
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No. 55. 
GENUS. Twrrpra. Hooxer and Arnorr. Conorra rotata, 5-partita: 
corona simplex, —, folielis lignlatis, integris, i as revolutis, basi auri- 
eile Gynostemium 5-angulare, pyramidatum THERE membrana ter- 
inate. Masse pollinis ex apice loculi phadule, date, pedicello utroque 
unidentato; glandula lineari, obtus4, erect4, hine canaliculata. TIGMATA 
acuta. Foxzicunt leaves. Srmina comosa. D. Don, in Sweet's British Flower 
Garden, folio 407 
SPECIES. Resi cervuLEs. Don. Cavre volubili, tomentoso; foliis 
oppositis cordato-oblongis. Ibid. 
CHARACTER OF THE Genus, Twrepia. Coroxia rotate, 5- 
parted; corona simple, 5-leaved, folioles ligulate, entire, revolute at 
the apex, auricled at the base. GyNosTEMium 5-angled, pyramidical. 
ANTHERS terminated by a membrane. PoLLEN-masses pendulous 
from the top of the cell, clavate, each pedicel one-toothed: gland li- 
near, obtuse, erect, channelled. StT1emas acute. FoLioLes smooth. 
SEEDS comose. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Sprcies, TWEEDIA C@RULEA. A peren- 
nial evergreen plant, with fibrous roots, and herbaceous or somewhat 
woody twining slender stem, attaining the height of 6 feet, scarcely 
branching; the whole surface, except the upper lamina of the corolla, 
clothed with downy whitish hairs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, cor- 
date, lanceolate, entire slightly pointed, from one and a half to two 
inches long, half an ineh broad; posterior lobes rounded, approximat- 
ing or overlapping, 
RESCENCE umbellate, nterpetiolar, umbels 3-5 flowered. PEDUN- 
curs longer than the leaves; pedicels slender, about half an inch 
long, with two awl-shaped bracts at the base. Caryx 5-parted, seg- 
ments lanceolate, acute, hairy externally, smooth internally. Co- 
ROLLA rotate, 5-parted, under surface pinkish, upper light blue, the 
a 0 THE neers 
1, Corolla open, Seed vessel, two-thirds of its natural size, 
opened to show tse ach crownel coma or sky th compan ofsingl omy arpa 
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