104 SENTANDRIA JViONOGYNIA. CodoHOps'lS. 



tpber. It has also been brought to me from much more northerly 

 and higher parts of Nipal towards Gosain-Than, where it blossoms 

 later. 



An extensively twining, very ratuous, annual plant, with slender, 

 round, smooth, shining, sometimes purplish stem, of the thickness of a 

 crow-quill. Branches alternate, numerous, from one to two feet long, 

 Jeafy. — Leaves alternate, spreading, membranous, ovate-oblong, taper- 

 ing into an acute apex, or acuminate, obscurely crenulate, base cor- 

 date, with rounded lobes, from three to five inches long, sparingly 

 beset on the upper, bright-green, opaque surface with short, soft, ad- 

 pressed hair, densely villous, glaucous underneath, with slender ele- 

 vated rib and oblique reticulated nerves. — Petioles rounded, tortuous, 

 villous, half an inch long. — Flowers large, drooping, solitary, placed 

 irregularly along the branches, or axillary, sometimes opposite the 

 leaves, possessing a very disagreeable narcotic smell, glaucous, pu- 

 bescent. — Peduncles filiform, curved, naked, pubescent, somewhat 

 enlarged under the flower. — Calyx persistent, consisting of five equal, 

 very distant, linear, acute, denticulate, recurved, two or three-nerved 

 lobes, about five lines long, and separated by rectilinear naked inter- 

 slices uf four lines. — Corolla ample, belt-shaped, one inch long, of a 

 thickish, rather fleshy texture, and a pale yellowish green colour ; tube 

 ventricose, inserted round the vertex of the ovarium, the inside with 

 small purple dots; boi der spreading, an inch and half wide, five-part- 

 ed ; lacinieB ovate, acute, half the length of the tube, very obscurely 

 marked along the margins, with small elevated papillae. Aestivation 

 vaivate.'-StawJttafrve, distant, distinct, erect, two-thirds shorter than 

 the tube of the corolla, opposite its laciniaB ; filaments fleshy, smooth, 

 subulate, base scarcely widened, inserted within the base of the 

 corolla; anthers erect, linear, as long as the filaments, two-celled. — 

 Ovarium large, fleshy, hemispherical, depressed, ten-nerved, the ver- 

 tex obscurely five-cornered, convex, gently elevated within the bottom 

 of the flower, shining, purple, umbilicated, three-celled; ovula very 

 numerous, attached to three very thick and fleshy axile placenta which 

 protrude so much as to render, the cells very narrow and parietal 



