﻿PLATE DXV. 



CYNANCHUM MUCRONATUM. 



Mucronate-leaved Cynanchum. 



CLASS V. ORDER II. 

 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Five Chives. Two Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Coktohtum. Nectarium cylindricum, quin- II Conxohtb D . Honey-cup cylindrical, five- 



quedentatu 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 

 caule scandente, piloso: foliis g Cynakchv 



nearly heart-shaped, with 

 •.bu s , mumbeUisproliferis:corollls ^ FIowersaxillar ^ inproliferousum . 



- ^ virescentibus: orislaciniis | bels. Blossoms purple and greenish. Seg- 



ments of the border pointed, twisted, and 

 bent back. 

 Native of the Island of Trinidad. 



purpureis et virescentibus 

 acutii 



Habitat 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. The blossom spread open. 



3. The parts of fructification magnified. 



4. The outer scale of the honey-cup. 



5. The inner of the same. 



<5. The seed-bud, shaft, summit and chives, magi 



TH.S handsome new species of Cynanchum was introduced by Lord Seaforth, who informs us I 

 is a native of the Tsla^ „*- ^- - , , . . 



Island of Trinidad 

 Srsttir 

 > agr 

 t part of the summer 



wn a. B. Lambert, esq. at Royston 

 t June, for the first time in England 9n 4 • , 



^ngiana, and is not as yet in any other collection. It is a v< 

 great length, with many umbels of flowers, which succeed each other 



