distinctions of importance sufficient to constitute a particu- 
lar genus. We have therefore continued to retain. this 
Species among the genuine Srapetias which have been di- 
vided into convenient sections by Mr. Brown. That gentle- 
man, in remodelling the order of Asclepiadew, found it 
necessary to make no other alteration in the genus, as ori- 
nally fixed, than to reform the essential character, which 
was defective and inaccurate; and to divide from it the 
species with a 10-cleft corolla (Husrnta Brown), and those 
with a single corona to the corolla (Prarantuus Brown). 
) 
The singular appellation (normalis), which has been 
bestowed upon the species by Jacquin, alludes to the regu- 
lar manner in which the spots of the corolla are arranged. 
Branches many, much divided, bending down, or rising 
upwards, green, from 4 to 10 inches long, the old ones scarcely 
so thick as one’s little finger, four-cornered; the angles with 
very spreading teeth. Hlower-stalks from the lower part of 
the young branches, generally at their divisions, solitary, 
one-flowered, round, smooth, very much spreading, an inch 
and half long, as thick as a crow’s quill. Leaves of the 
Calyx ovate, acute, smooth, pale green, very much spread- 
ing. Corolla stinking, its diameter two inches and more, 
nearly flat, very much spreading, divided half way; on the 
outside of a pale sulphur colour, streaked in lines, smooth, 
in the inside with a yellow ground, striped across and 
marked with blood-red spots, which are regularly disposed 
in longitudinal parallel rows. Tube scarcely any. Divisions 
of Corolla 4 or 5, ovate, acute, flat. Crown spurious, 
‘warted, of the same colour as the divisions. Sac of the 
-nectary short, nearly white, marked at the bottom witha 
blood-red ring, and at the top with two or three spots of a 
similar colour. Horns round, obtuse, erect, at the top 
curved backwards, green, dotted with blood-red. Séraps 
oblong, blunt, split at the end, often having a little tooth- 
let between them, very much spreading, greenish, covered 
on both sides with dark purple spots, at the bottom blood- 
red. Seed-pods smooth, as thick as one’s finger, about four 
inches long, and nearly erect. Jacq. 
= J. L. 
