240 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 
Limb of the corolla nearly entire, with 5 subulate 
points, the lobes being almost obsolete; stems 
with numerous angles formed of tubercles tipped 
with stout spine-like bristles. : : c 
Limb of the corolla distinctly and often deeply 5- 
lobed. 
Stems thick, the numerous angles formed of con- 
fluent tubercles tipped with a simple bristle, 
or rarely very blunt and pointless; corolla 
small, rotate or sub-campanulate : é 
Stems 6-12-angled ; tubercles of the angles tipped 
with three bristles, the two side ones de- 
fleved ; corolla large, tubular-funnel-shaped . 
Stems 4-6-angled. 
Corolla with the base of the sinuses between the 
lobes produced into small triangular teeth 
Corolla without teeth in the sinuses between the 
lobes. 
Outer corona cup-shaped or annular and 
entire or variously toothed, or of 5 small 
pouches alternating with the anthers, 
or of 5 more or less deeply bifid lobes 
which have their margins more or less 
adnate to the basal part of the inner 
coronal-lobes or are nearly free. 
Corolla 3-5 in. in diam., with a very small 
tube ; tips of inner coronal-lobes 
dilated, inflexed i: 
Corolla usually under 1 in. rarely 13-3 
in. in diam. ; tips of inner coronal- 
lobes not dilated : . ‘ 
Outer corona of 5 spreading lobes free to their 
base, entire, emarginate, or 2—4-toothed 
at the apex; corolla star-like, usually 
but not always without a distinct tube . 
Outer corona in one piece, disk-like, pen- 
tagonal, resting on the raised rim of the 
disk of the corolla and closing the 
spurious tube formed by it; inner 
coronal-lobes rhomboidal-ovoid; corol!a- 
lobes more or less folded lengthwise, and 
often into narrow vertical plates 
Outer corona absent ; inner coronal-lobes very 
stout, 4-angled in cross-section in the 
lower part, adnate to the staminal- 
column for half their length 
. 
51. Hoopia. 
50. TRICHOCAULON. 
53. TOVARESIA. 
. 54. Hvernia. 
. 52. EDITHCOLEA. 
49. CARALLUMA, 
56. STAPELIA. 
. 57. DUVALIA. 
. 55. HvERNIOPSIS. 
