| | Gonlobus (name refers to the angled pod of one of the original species). Asdepiadaceae. Mostly trailing or climbing plants, herbaceous or woody, of Amer., chiefly tropical: lvs. opposite and mostly cordate: fls. dull or dark-colored, of medium or large size, in fascicles or umbel-like cymes; corolla rotate to campanulate, 5 lobed; crown ring-like or cup-like, entire, lobed or divided; anthers short and borne under the disk of the stigma or on the margin of it; pollinia nearly or quite horizontal; stigma flat-topped.—Seventy-five or more species, only one of which seems to be in horticultural lists. G. edulis, Hemsl., of Guatemala and Costa Rica, is a more or less rusty-hairy twining shrub, with ovate-oblong deeply cordate lvs., and 3-5-fld. short peduncles: corolla of medium size, white, densely bearded inside; crown short, with 5 interior longitudinal lamelte: follicles the size of a swan's egg, edible.—It is said to be hardy at Santa Barbara and to bloom profusely but to set no fr. It is the guayote of the natives of Costa Rica. | | Gonlobus (name refers to the angled pod of one of the original species). Asdepiadaceae. Mostly trailing or climbing plants, herbaceous or woody, of Amer., chiefly tropical: lvs. opposite and mostly cordate: fls. dull or dark-colored, of medium or large size, in fascicles or umbel-like cymes; corolla rotate to campanulate, 5 lobed; crown ring-like or cup-like, entire, lobed or divided; anthers short and borne under the disk of the stigma or on the margin of it; pollinia nearly or quite horizontal; stigma flat-topped.—Seventy-five or more species, only one of which seems to be in horticultural lists. G. edulis, Hemsl., of Guatemala and Costa Rica, is a more or less rusty-hairy twining shrub, with ovate-oblong deeply cordate lvs., and 3-5-fld. short peduncles: corolla of medium size, white, densely bearded inside; crown short, with 5 interior longitudinal lamelte: follicles the size of a swan's egg, edible.—It is said to be hardy at Santa Barbara and to bloom profusely but to set no fr. It is the guayote of the natives of Costa Rica. |
| − | G. cundurango, Triana=Maredenia.—G. martianus, Hook., is properly Fiacheria martiana, Decne. A handsome stove twiner with pretty fls. in early summer: lvs. oblong-ovate, hairy, acuminate: fls. white with a green ring at base and a red hairy calyx. Brazil. B.M. 4472. J.F. 1:33. L. H. B. | + | G. cundurango, Triana (equals Maredenia).—G. martianus, Hook., is properly Fiacheria martiana, Decne. A handsome stove twiner with pretty fls. in early summer: lvs. oblong-ovate, hairy, acuminate: fls. white with a green ring at base and a red hairy calyx. Brazil. |