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NATURAL ORDER, ASCLEPIADACE., 
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GENUS. Cerroprrecia. Brown, Corotza tubulosa, basi ventricosa; limbi 
laciniis ligularibus, conniventibus (?) estivatione valvata. Coxumna fructifica- 
4 inclusa. Cone NA amines 10. fida ; Aacinie B: antheris distinctis opposite 
g ASS POLLINIS erect2. 
Heres Pus, sepius ‘olabils, is ‘tuberosa. UMBELLE interpetiolares 
nune pauciflore.. Brown, in Bot. Reg. fol. 626. 
SPECIES. Crroprgia staPEtitrormis; volubilis? aphylla, ramosa, ramis 
py selertrnd dentibus mollibus epiniformibus reget optsia emia floribus 1. 2 € ramis 
propriis wiebicvam 
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gatis filiformibus. Hooxer. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CEROPEGIA. CoroLta tubular, 
inflated at the base, segments of the limb strap-shaped, connivent (?) 
with valvate zstivation. CoLumn of fructification included. STaminaL 
corona 10-cleft; five of the segments longer than the others, opposite 
to the stamens, and alternating with the other five which are entire or 
bifid. POLLEN MASSES erect. 
DeEscrRIPTION OF THE SpeEciES, CEROPEGIA STAPELIIFORMIS. 
Stem fleshy, branched, round, curved, with long joints, tubercled, and 
having below the joints minute, subulate, reflected leaves. UmBeE xs few- 
flowered, or flowers often solitary, arising at the tubercles. FLOWERS 
(2% inches long, 14 inch across from tip to tip, when fully expanded) 
erect, shortly pedicellate. Catyx green, five-partite; segments trans- 
versely wrinkled at the base, subulate. Corotta yellowish green, 
- spotted with red, especially on its base and at its limb; every where 
glabrous on the outside, on the inside very hairy at the limb and 
throat, ane in a smaller degree below a middle and at the base of 
shits peeked along their centre internally, curv outwards, Visited 
at the tips; tube funnel-shaped, tumid below. STAMINAL CROWN with 
