Camptopus
(from kamptos, curved, and pous, a foot; the flower-stalk is curved downwardly). ORD. Rubiaceoe. A curious shrub, now referred to Cephaelis. It requires a most stove temperature. Cuttings will root in sandy loam, under a hand glass, in bottom heat.
C. Mannii (Mann's). fl. white, numerously produced in sub-globose, compound heads; peduncles stout, scarlet, drooping, from 12in. to 18in. long. Summer. l. large, opposite, obovate or obovate-lanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib thick, red beneath. h. 15ft. Fernando Po, 1863. (B. M. 5755.)