the five longer segments erect, attenuated, approximated in the centre, 
and slightly incurved at the points; the other segments alternating 
with the base of these, are short and blunt. PoLten Masses small, 
yellow, kidney-shaped, opposite to the longer segments of the corona. 
Stiema nearly flat with five angles, surmounting the two-lobed, erect, 
glabrous, nearly white GeERMEN, which is shorter than the calyx. 
Popunar aNpD GeocrapHicaL Notice. The genus Ceropegia is 
almost entirely East Indian, one species only having been obtained 
from the Cape of Good Hope, They are very singular looking plants, 
with abundance of milky juice. The species, as Dr. Wight remarks, 
may be most easily distinguished by the modifications of the corona, 
but unfortunately while this affords the means of easy diagnoss, it 
combines the species, as he also remarked, into very unnatural groups. 
The flowers of several, though always very peculiar, are handsome— 
those of others are attractive only from their peculiarity. The diverg- 
ing form of the limb of the corolla in the present species, is, as far as 
I know, the only exception to the connivent segments considered by 
Brown part of the generic character, The species are eaten by 
the natives of India, either in curries or raw; and according to Dr. 
Roxburgh the tuber of Ceropegia bulbosa much resembles a turnip to 
the taste. 
IntropucTiON; WHERE Grown; Curtours. - All the species which 
have been introduced to our gardens are habitually cultivated in stove 
heat, though from the elevation at which some of them naturally grow, 
they might have been expected to thrive in a cooler temperature. 
They are readily propagated by cuttings at almost any season; and 
require a light sandy soil, with a limited supply of water. The present 
species was received at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Kew, 
in 1833. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAME. 
Ceropecia, from xnpornytor, the form of the umbel in some degree resembling 
a Candelabra. 
SyNonyME, 
Crrorecia StapeLiirormis, Hooker: in Bot. Mag. 3567, GRA. = 
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