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faux angular yelvetly furred on the inside and crimsoned 
with closeset streaks and dots; limb very large, an inch and 
a half long, equal, distantly and recurvedly stellate, seg- 
ments narrow, caudately tapered, involutely channelled, 
at the lower part on the inside of the same colour as the 
faux: faucial scales 5, of the colour and consistence of the 
interior lining of the faux, bifid, adhering to the faux at the 
base of the fork of each division between the segments of 
the limb, lobes short dentiform rounded at the ends. Fila- 
ments pale, downy, springing from the orifice of the tube, 
shortly detached at the top within the faux, thence em- 
bossedly adnate to the faux down to the tube, having the 
appearance of so many thick plaits of an obversely clavate 
form: anthers cream-coloured, sagittate, long-awned, up- 
right, connivent. Germen on the glandular floor or disk of 
the calyx, green, smooth, twin, roundish, each lobe marked 
with a furrow: style white, pustular, clavately filiform, 
with a perpendicular seam on each side, showing it to con- 
sist of two parallelly cohering ones, nearly as in Nerrum; 
stigma white, frosted, oblong, upright, cylindrical, flat at 
the bottom with a projecting ledge or rim, with a narrow 
bifid summit; ultimately adhering to the lower part of the 
anthers. 
Loureiro has described the twin follicles (indehiscent 
seedvessels) of his plant as horizontal, thick, and obtuse, 
with many oblong compressed feathered seeds. 
SrROPHANTHUS comes very near to Nertum; but differs in 
the sarmentose or climbing nature of the shrubs, in the 
foliage being disposed in pairs instead of threes, in having 
a funnelform instead of an hypocrateriform corolla, and 
by a faucial crown of 5 regularly bifid scales instead of a 
crown with an irregularly shred border. 
The type of this genus has been observed in India, 
Asia, and the tropical parts of Africa. The present we be- 
lieve is the only species which has appeared in any European 
garden. 
