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series with them, or reduced to minute pouches alternating with the 

 stamens ; inner of 5 short or long processes opposite the anthers and 

 incumbent on them or erect, dorsally adnate at their base to the cup of 

 the outer corona or laterally to its lobes, when the corona appears to be 

 formed of 5 lobes with a tooth on each side at their base. Staminal 

 column arising a little above the base of the corolla, short and, with the 

 corona, included in its inflated basal part ; anthers erect, ascending or in- 

 cumbent on the top of the style-apex, wnthout appendages ; pollen-masses 

 erect, ascending or subhorizontal, 1 in each anther-cell, subsessile on, or 

 attached in pairs by short caudicles to, the pollen-carriers. Ovary of 

 2 carpels } style-apex truncate or shortly conical, not exserted. Fruit 

 of 1 or 2 lanceolate or linear- fusiform, acuminate, smooth follicles. 

 Seeds comose. — Disteib. A large genus of 80 or more species, found in 

 Africa, India, Malaya and Tropical Australia. 



Ceropegia lucida, Wall. PL As. Ear. II. 33, t. 139 (1881), and 

 Cat. 8133. A tmning shrub, with irregularly fascicled fibrous roots; 

 branchlets glabrous, smooth, more or less angular when dry. Leaves 

 fleshy when green, membranous when dry ; ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at apex, acute or somewhat obtuse at base ; glabrous on both 

 sm-faces ; -4 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main 

 nerves 6 to 7 pairs, obscure, acutely curving upwards ; reticulations 

 irregular, scarcely visible ; petiole -5 to 1-5 in. long. Cymes up to 3 in. 

 long, 1 to 3 together at the nodes ; peduncles reddish, stout, 1 to 2 in. 

 long, bearing umbellate racemes with a '25 to '5 in. long thickened 

 rachis, and with white rounded glands and linear-subulate bracts ; pedicels 

 slender, "5 in. long ; flowers green, spotted with purple in the tube and 

 with purple-brown tips to the lobes. Calyx very deeply cleft ; lobes 

 linear-subulate, slender, recurved, -4 to '5 in. long ; glandular scales 

 rather large, ovate, flat. Corolla 1'5 to 2 in. long, curved, glabrous 

 without, also within, except at the base of the tube, which is sparsely 

 \'illous ; tube scarcely inflated below, broadly funnel-shaped below the 

 lobes ; lobes lanceolate, at first spreading, afterwards inflexed and 

 connate at the dilated long-ciliate tips. Coro?ia-processes : outer 

 10-lobed, lobes short, triangular, long-ciliate ; inner linear-spathulate, 

 connivent at the tips. Staminal-column short ; pollen-masses nearly 

 globose, subsessile on the clavate pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-angled ; 

 apiculus conical. Fruit not seen. Wight Contrib. 33 ; Dene, in DC. 

 Prodr. VIII. 641 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 73. 



Penang : at Penara Bukit, 1000 ft., Curtis 1007.— Disteib. India 

 (Silhet and Cachar), Burma. 



