Contorted. Honey-cup cylindrical, five-toothed.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Cynanchum caule scandente, piloso: foliis sub-cordatis, apice mucronatis: floribus axillaribus, in umbellis proliferis: corollis purpureis et virescentibus: oris laciniis acutis, tortis, reflexis.
Habitat in Insula Trinidada.
Cynanchum with a hairy climbing stem. Leaves nearly heart-shaped, with a mucronated end. Flowers axillary, in proliferous umbels. Blossoms purple and greenish. Segments of the border pointed, twisted, and bent back.
Native of the Island of Trinidad.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The blossom spread open.
3. The parts of fructification magnified.
4. The outer scale of the honey-cup.
5. The inner of the same.
6. The seed-bud, shaft, summit and chives, magnified.
This handsome new species of Cynanchum was introduced by Lord Seaforth, who informs us that it is a native of the Island of Trinidad. It flowered with A. B. Lambert, esq. at Royston House, last June, for the first time in England, and is not as yet in any other collection. It is very free grower, running to a great length, with many umbels of flowers, which succeed each other during most part of the summer.[Pg 47]
