GOMPHOCARPUS. 
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dark or full gr. ; their lower surface permanently clothed with 
a dull w. lustreless very densely and shortly velvety thin 
tomentum somewhat like those of Rubus discolor W. & N. FI. 
subdichotomously cymose, 1-4 together, subracemose, on short 
intraaxillarv ped., scentless, about f in. long, somewhat re- 
sembling those of Clematis cordata Pursh. (BM. t. 1816) but 
neither cernuous nor with revolute lobes. Sep. leafy pale 
mealy gr. or purplish distinct loosely erecto-patent ovate or 
broadly lanceolate, acute, | in. long and about half as broad. 
Cor. campanulate pale dull pink or flesh-col., sometimes full 
pink, paler or mealy-whitish-blush outside, within fuller or 
darker rose-purple disposed in interrupted streaks or lines ; the 
lower inflated part of tube hairy and like the 5 large conspi- 
cuous cucullate fleshy lobes or lfts. of stam. -crown (which are 
adnate downwards to the tube itself) pure w. The shortly for- 
cipately 2-horned stigma y. Tube of cor. | in. long about half 
as broad, constricted above the swollen or inflated base about 
halfway up, smooth, with 5 pale gr. gibbous prominences out- 
side at the base of the inflated part corresponding with the 5 
internal fleshy hooded leaflets of the stam.-crown ; lobes of cor.- 
limb erect or erecto-patent flat ovate mostly subobtuse. Fol- 
licles very large, 4 or 5 in. long, very widely or horizontally 
divergent, acuminately ovoidal broadly constricted towards the 
base, tumid soft or spongy, irregularly ribbed or plaited longitu- 
dinally, pale gr., finally yellowish. Seeds numerous dark coffee- 
brown rough or granulate ; pappus or coma very copious soft 
silky w. 
In foliage there does not seem to be much difference between 
the present pi. and A. albens Don, as figured in BM. t. 3201 
and Bli. t. 1759, under the wrong name of Physianthus aliens 
Mart., which is properly, as referred by DC., a synonym of A. 
sericifera Brot. But besides the decidedly pink cor. in the 
Mad. pi., its sep. are much larger and longer (i. e. quite as long 
as or rather longer than the cor. -tube), and the cor. -lobes are 
suberect and plain or flat, not spreading or waved or reflected 
at the sides and tips. 
+f2. GoMPnocARPus R. Br. 
ttl. G. fruticosus (L.). Arvore de Seda. 
Shr. erect, branches straight virgate furry-puberulous gla- 
brescent; 1. linear acuminate, attenuate at base, subsessile, 
smooth or glabrescent, shining dark gr. above, the margins sub- 
revolute; fl. umbellate, umbels 5- or 6-10-fld. subcernuous 
shorter than the 1., ped. and pedic. hoary-puberulous slender; 
