80 Gonolobas obliquus, 



A twining perennial plant, growing to the height of five or eight 

 feet, supporting itself on the surrounding shrubbery, or trailing on the 

 ground. The stem is perfectly cylindrical, and beset with long, trans- 

 verse, soft hairs, petioles and peduncles also very hairy. Leaves vary- 

 ing in size. Those situated towards the root very large, and nearly 

 round and cordate at base, often from live to six or seven inches in 

 diameter. Those of the middle and upper part, cordate and semi- 

 acuminate. The costa, nerves, and veins of the under side of all the 

 leaves, invested with the same soft, but shorter, sienna-coloured pu- 

 bescence as the stem, which give* to the under disks a sericeous feel. 

 Flo were somewhat umbellate, situated on divaricating peduncles of 

 various lengths from one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch in length. 

 Segments of the calix acuminate, pubescent. Petals linear and lanceo- 

 late-linear, occasionally very narrow and long, often the breadth and 

 length represented in the plate. Colour, auricula-purple. Pod, muri- 

 cate, with soft spines of a dull brown colour. Grows throughout the 

 union, near damp thickets, flowering in July. 



The table represents the plant as large as nature. 



