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GONOLOBUS diadematus. 
Gorgetted Gonolobus 
a 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNL4. 
Nat. ord. ApocyNem®. Jussieu gen. 143. Div. II. 
ASCLEPIADEZ. Brown asclep. 19. Div. I. ASCLEPIADER - 
verz. Masse pollinis 10, leves, per paria, (diversis antheris pertinentia,) 
affixe stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali, bipartibilibus. Fil. con- 
nata, extus sepiis appendiculata. Id. f..c. 21. 
GONOLOBUS. Masse Pollinis leves, 10, transverse. Cor. subro- 
tata. Sem.comosa. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 82. 
Suffrutices volubiles. Fol. opposita, latiuscula. Umbelle interpetiolares. 
America presertim inter tropicos indigene. 
G. diadematus, hirsutus ; foliis oblongis, ellipticis, lanceolatis, basi arctato« 
cordatis sini clatiso, corollz laciniis ovato-rotundatis: corona faucem 
ints de basi circumstipante. 
Frutex volubilis biorgyalis v. ultra, caule inferné suberoso-fisso, ramis 
teretibus pilis articulatis asperiusculis Julvis hirsutis. Fol. distantia, mem- 
branacea, acuminata, hirsutwis pilosa, nervosa, sublis reticulato-venosa, 
2-4-uncialia magisve: pet. crassiuscult, flexi, bis terve breviores laminas: 
cilia interpetiolaria partim conspicua. Umbella capitato-contracte, 3-5-flora, 
Soliolis lanceolatis involucrate; pedunc. communi robisto breviore petiolo, 
pedicellis brevioribus v. subequalibus calyci, hirsutis, distinctis bracteis an 
Zustis.. Flores luteo-virentes diamietro subunciali. Cal. cequalis fauci, came 
panulatus, villosus, viridans, JSoliolis 5 ovato-lanceolatis. Cor. coriacea, urced= 
dato-rotata, glabra, venis lineisque obscurioribus, intis opaca, extis lucida 
limbus explanatus, ultra medium 5-fidus, laciniis obtusissimis; faux brevia 
urceolata ; corona staminea faucis fundo adnata, purpureo-rubens, glabra, 
subemicans, @ laminis subquadrato-scutellatis invicem contiguis, parieti faucis 
accumbentibis, margine summo subtridentato-repandis, compagem stamineane 
(qué clam bast derivantur) libere circumstantibus. Stig. albicans, depress 
sum. Anth. quas non nist visu Sugitivo anspeximus, 2 dignose generis ali 
quantiim deflectunt habentque formam gigartoideam, neque corona apert& 
staminibus innata est: undé forte rectiis novi generis species? Habiti vers 
celerisque signis convenit cum GONOLOBO ; nec aliorsim propinguits accedere 
nobis videturs : 
An unrecorded species, which we have ranked in the 
present genus chiefly from habit or general likeness; for 
it has not precisely the transverse anthers, which constitute 
a prominent feature of GonoLospus, as now defined. Mr. 
Brown, who has so advantageously remodelled the natural 
order to which this genus belongs, seems inclined to think 
that the character should be extended to admit the present 
Species, along with some others which he has not had an 
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