ASCLEPIADACEAE. 
ASCLEPIADACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Botany 302; Eichler, Blüthendiagramme I. 136; Baker, Flora of 
Mauritius and the Seychelles 225; Asa Gray, Synoptical Flora of North America II. 85. — Contortarum 
pars Linn. Termini botanici ed. Giseke p. 881. — Apocynarum genera Adams. Fam. 160. — Apocinea- 
rum genera Juss. 145. — Apocynearum genera Allman, Analysis p. 25; Kunth Syn. II. 275. — 
ASCLEPIADEAE R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. I. 12; Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 458; Observations on the 
organs and mode of fecundation etc. Lond. in 8° (1831); Suppl. Observat. etc. (July 1883); in Transact. 
of Linn. Soc. XXI. 685. tab. 84—86; Vermischte Schriften II. 847; Jacquin, Genitalia Asclepiadearum 
controversa, Vindob. 1811; Du Mortier, Analyse des familles des plantes p. 26; Bartling, Ordines naturales 
(1880) p. 201; Ehrenb. Ueber das Pollen der Asclepiadeen, in 4°, Berlin 1831; Ad. Brongn. in Ann. 
sc. nat. XXIV. (1831) 113. tab. 15—14; Wight et Arnott, Contributions to the Botany of India p. 29; 
Hook. et Arn. Journ. of Botany (1834) p. 287; E. Meyer, Comment. Pl. Afr. austral. 189; Schauer, 
Vergleichende Zusammenstellung aller über die Befruchtungsorgane der Asclepiadeen bisher aufgestellten Theo- 
rien in R. Browns Vermischte Schriften V. 242; Endl. Gen. p. 586; 6. Don, General History of Dichla- 
mydac. plants IV. 106; Perleb, Classes p.. 23; Decaisne m Ann. sc. nat. (1838) p. 257. tab. 9—12 et 
in DC. Prodr. VIII. 490; J. G. Agardh, Theoria systematis plantarum p. 253; Griseb. Fl. W.-Ind. 
Isl. 416; Delpino, Relazioni sull. apparecchio della fecondazione nelle Asclepiadee (in Gazzetta medica di 
Torino) 1865; Benth. Flora Austral. IV. 324; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. Il. 728; Boissier, Flora 
| orient. IV. 49. 
DICOTYLEDONEAE FOLIIS OPPOSITIS (RARO SPARSIS AUT VERTICILLATIS), CYMIS INTERPETIOLA- 
RIBUS, FLORIBUS HERMAPHRODITIS, COROLLA GAMOPETALA D-FIDA; POLLINE CEREO, OVARIO SUPERO, 
CARPELLIS DUOBUS, STYLIS DUOBUS IN STIGMA UNICUM COALESCENTIBUS, FRUCTU FOLLICULARI POLY- 
SPERMO, SEMINIBUS ANATROPIS COMOSIS. i 
FLORES hermaphroditi, regulares. CALYX inferus, persistens, tubo brevissimo. aperto v. nullo, 
lobis 5 -acutis imbrieatis, in sinubus v. seeus tubum saepissime glandulosis. COROLLA gamopetala, hypo- 
gyna, decidua, regularis, saepius profunde fissa, tum nuda, tum instructa vel ad sinus loborum pulvina- 
ribus vel in fauce squamis liberis aut plus minus connatis, simplieibus aut. duplieibus, coronam effingen- 
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