Cryptostegia
(from kryptos, concealed, and stego, to cover; in reference to the scales in the throat covering the anthers). ORD. Asclepiadeae. Handsome climbing stove evergreens, of easy culture in a mixture of loam and peat. Cuttings root freely if planted in sand, under a glass, in heat. C. grandiflora (large-flowered).* fl. reddish-purple, large; corolla campanulately funnel-shaped; tube furnished with five inclosed narrow-bipartite scales inside, which cover the anthers, being opposite them; corymbs trichotomous, terminal. July. l. opposite, shortly petiolate, elliptic, bluntly acuminated, shining. East Indies, 1824. C. madagascariensis (Madagascar). fl. pink. June. Madagascar, 1826.