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GONOLOBUS maritimus. 
Sea-shore Gonolobus. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
_ Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. 
GONOLOBUS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 252. 
Diy. Floribus umbellatis ; folits pubescentibus. 
G. maritimus ; hirsutus, foliis cordatis acuminatis subtus incano-tomentosis, 
umbellis sessilibus, laciniis corollee ovatis acutis (obtusis) hirsutis. Sprengel. 
syst. vegetab. 1.846. 
Cynanchum maritimum. Jacg. Amer. p. 85. t. 56. Linn. Mantissa, 54. 
Willd. sp. 1.1255. 
Gonolobus maritimus. Brown in Act. Wern. 1. p. 35. Romer & Schultes, 
sp. pl. 6.59. ; 
Frutex volubilis, hirsutus. Caules densé retrorsiim tomentosi, teretes. 
Folia tomentosa, cordata, acuminata, sinu aperto, petiolo longitudine lamine. 
Umbelle sessiles, pauciflore, interpetiolares, petiolo breviores. Calyx 5-fidus, 
pubescens, laciniis ovatis, obtusis, patentibus. Corolla rotata, 5-purtita, 
pubescens, dor'so et margine viridiores, disco purpureo ; laciniis ovatis, obtusis. 
Corona cyathiformis, viridis, 15-dentata; dentibus 5 sinubus corolle oppo- 
sitis majoribus, inflexis, ciliatis. Pollinia didyma, medio affica. Ovaria 
duo. Stylus unicus, exsertus, filiformis. Stigma obscure bilobum. 
An inelegant, twining, hairy, shrubby plant, found by 
Jacquin among bushes on the sea-shore of Tierra Bomba. 
In this country it requires to be cultivated in the stove, 
when it flowers in June and July. 
Our drawing was made in Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, who 
received it from the Caraccas. Specimens from the Car- 
ribbee Islands, collected by De Ponthieu, and preserved 
in the Banksian Herbarium, perfectly agree with our culti- 
vated plant. 
Stems round, densely downy backwards. Leaves downy, 
cordate, acuminate, with the recess of the base open; the 
