Pergularia
(from pergula an arbour; referring to the twining character of the plants). OED. Ascle-piadeae. A genus comprising about ten species of stove, evergreen, glabrous climbers, inhabiting tropical Asia and Africa and Southern Africa. Flowers golden-yellow or greenish; calyx five-partite; corolla salver-shaped, with an ovoid or oblong tube; staminal corona five-leaved. Leaves opposite, membranous. For culture, see Stephanotis.
P. minor (smaller). A. orange-coloured or yellow, very fragrant; umbels shorter than the leaves. May to August. l. orbicular or ovate-cordate, acuminate, downy while young. India, China, &c., 1790. (A. B. R. 184; B. M. 755.)
P. odoratissima (sweetest-scented).* West Coast Creeper. A. greenish-yellow, exceedingly fragrant; umbels shorter than the leaves; corolla woolly inside June. l. cordate, acuminated, soft, downy, 4in. long. China, &c., 1784. (A. B. R. 185; B. R. 412.)
P. sanguinolenta (bloody-juiced). A. greenish-yellow; cymes many-flowered, shorter than the leaves. July. l. ovate-lanceolate, quite glabrous. Sierra LEONE, 1822. Plant Trailing, full of blood-coloured juice. (B. M. 2532.)