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GONOLOBUS viridiflorus. 
Greenflowered Gonolobus. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. 
GONOLOBUS. Supra, vol. 3. fol. 252. 
G. viridiflorus ; umbellis foliis brevioribus paucifloris, foliis cordato-ovatis 
ovatisve acuminatis glabris, caule volubili. Rém. et Schultes syst. veg. 
6. 61. 
“ Cynanchum viridiflorum. Meyer fl. Essequeb. p. 141.” 
G. guianensis. Spreng, syst. 1. 845. 
Caulis fruticosus, volubilis, retrorsim villosus. Folia oblonga, subpan- 
durata, bast cordata, acuta, petiolata, glabriuscula, subtts venosa. Cymee 
triflore, foliis breviores, pedicellis pilosis. Flores magni, virides, venosi, 
glabri. 
A native of South America, in the district of Essequebo, 
whence it was obtained and described by Dr. Meyer; and 
also in Brazil, whence the plant from which our drawing 
was taken, in August last, was sent by Henry Chamberlain, 
Esq. to the Horticultural Society of London. 
A curious stove twining shrub, propagated very readily 
by cuttings of the ripened wood. 
Stem covered with long, reversed hairs. Leaves oblong, 
somewhat panduriform, cordate at the base, acute, stalked, 
smoothish, veiny beneath. Cymes 3-flowered, shorter than 
the leaves, with pilose pedicels. Fowers large, green, 
veiny, smooth. 
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