Hemidesmus.] ^ xcv. ASCLEPIADEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 
each cell, granular; appendages of the corpuscles dilated or hooded. Stigma 
o-angled, crown flat. —Follicles long, slender, divaricate, terete, smooth.. Seeds 
comose. 
H. indicus, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 57; leaves from. broadly obovate 
to oblong elliptic linear or linear-lanceolate obtuse or apiculate. Wall. Cat. 
8243; Wight Contrib. 63; Wight Ie. t. 594; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 55; Dalz. 
§ Gibs. Bomb. FI. 147 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 122; Dene. n DC. Prodr. vii 
494; Benth. $ Trim. Med. Pl. t. 174. H. Wallichii, Miquel Pl. Hohenack. 
No. 859. Periploca indica, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 9901. Asclepias psendo-sarsa, 
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 89, excl. syn.—Burm. Thes: Zeyl. t. 83, 
f. 1; Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 34. 
NorrtaerRy Innia ; from Banda to Oudh and Sikkim, and southwards to Travancore 
and CEYLON. 
Leaves most variable in form; length, and breadth; the shorter and broader 1-1} by 
1-1} in., the longer 4 by in., the broadest sometimes retuse at the tip; the narrowest 
finely acuminate, those on the young shoots often white along the midrib ; pani 
è in. Pedicels clothed with ovate acute jmbrieating bracts. Corolla 4 in. aned., 
green without, purple within. Follicles 4-5 in. Seeds 3 in., ovate-oblong, flattened, 
black ; coma 1 in. b h and times above pubescent. H 
AR. escens ; stem and leaves beneath and someti i se. in 
pubescen Wayne d Arn. Contrib. 63 ; Wight Ic. t. 1320 ; Wall. Cat. 8244; Dene. In 
DC. Prodr. viii. 495.—Behar on the Soane river, J. D. H.; Deccan Peninsula, 
Wight, &e. ` 
3. ORYPTOLEPIS, 7r. 
LED . . der 
Twining glabrous shrubs. Zeaves opposite. Flowers in very lax slend 
ichotomous fow-flowered peduncled terminal or axillary cymes. Calyx with 
scales within. Corolla-tube short, cylindrie or bell-shaped; lobes anew 
overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales 5, about or a YS : 
middle of the tube, linear or clavate, conniving. Filaments subconna e y 
their broad bases; anthers short, adhering by their base to the ee e 
conniving, acuminate ; pollen-masses cohering in pairs in. each. ce 1 Eth. 
"Ppendages oblong, Sigma broadly conic. Follicles divaricate, terete, s i 
eds comose.— DISTRIB. Species 14; Tropical Asiatic and African. 
: . blong 
l. c. Buchanani, Roem. § Sch: Syst. iv. 409 ; glabrous, leaves o 
or elliptic, glaucous beneath, nd very many slender nearly horizontal, cymes 
axillary many-fowered. Wight Ic. t. 494, and IX. t. 182, f. 8 S Fa e i 
Trans; Linn, Soc. xix. 53, t. 5; Brandis. For. Fl. 330; Dalz. § Gibs. E om m 
148. C. reticulata, Wall. Cat. 1640; Royle Il. 270. Nerium reticulatum, 
Roxb, Hort. Beng. 19, and Fl. Ind. ii. 8. Echites reticulata, Roth Nov p. 
E. cuspidata, Heyne in Herb. Rottl—Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 11. 
: Throughout Ixnia, from Western Kasumi to Assam and Brema, ascending the 
Himalaya to 4000 ft. ; and southwards to TRAVANCORE and CEYLON: ;enlate or 
Caves 3-6 by 1-23 in., coriaceous, shiping above, sometimes-obovate, api ulate 
acuminate, base acute; petiole 1 in. Cymes very shortly peduncled, pan ate 
ranches short, divaricate. Sepals short, acute. Corolla yellow, $ in. ht ri ;d. 
very short, lobes lanceolate. Coronal scales clavate. Follicles 2-4 in., straight . AN 
gradually narrowed from about the middle where they are 3-4 in. diam. à 7 
Ong, oblong-ovate, contracted below the tip, compressed ; coma 1 1n. 
2. €. grandiflora, Wight Ic. t. 831, and IU. ii. 109, t. 1555, f. E; 
glabrous, eaves obovate oblong or elliptie obtuse or mucronate, pale beneath, 
