Secamone.] XCV. ASCLEPIADEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 13 
S. emetica, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 56; slender, glabrous, except the 
puberulous cymes, climbing, leaves lanceolate, or linear- or elliptic- lanceolate 
subacute narrowed into the short petiole, cymes much shorter than the leaves, 
corolla glabrous, coronal-scales broadly subulate incurved much shorter than 
the column, stigma 2-lobed, follicles slender straight terete narrowed from the 
base to the tip. Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 501; Wight Contrib. 60; Ic. t. 
EA and IU. t. 155. b. fig. D. ; Wall. Cat. 8236. Periploca emetica, Retz. Obs. 
ii. 14. 
Mountains of the Sour Deccan PENINSULA and CEYLON. 
Leaves 13-3 by 4-4 in., rather glaucous beneath, nerves very faint. Cymes few- 
or many-fld.; peduncle 4-3 in. Sepals ciliolate. Corolla 4 in. diam., segments 
oblong, obtuse, bases saccate.  Follicles 2-24 in.—WS. Finlaysoni, Wight; Wall. Cat., 
a native of Siam, has much broader leaves and longer cymes. 
15. TOXOCARPUS, Wight $ Arn. 
Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in axillary dichotomous 
cymes. Calyx minute ; lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube short ; lobes narrow, 
spreading and recurved, glabrous, overlapping to the left. Coronal scales 
minute, obtuse or acute, adnate to the column. Filaments connate ; anthers 
small, retuse, often inappendiculate ; pollen-masses 2 in each cell, very minute, 
pendulous, waxy. „Stigma produced far beyond the column. „Follicles smooth. 
Seeds comose. DISTRIB. Species about 14, tropical Asiatic and African. 
Tam unable to determine accurately from herbarium specimens the characters of 
the very minute staminal column and its scales in this genus. 
* Oymes rusty-pubescent. Corolla-segments without an adnate scale. 
t Corolla-segments villous or hairy at the base only. 
l. T. villosus, Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 506; leaves elliptic-oblong sub- 
acute or cuspidate rusty-pubescent beneath, cymes Jax, coronal scales with 
bulate tips overtopping the anther-cells, stigma slender quite entire. Mig. 
‘Ind. Bot. ii. 475. Secamone villosa, Blume Bijd. 1050. 
TENASSERIN ; Mergui, Griffith —Dıstrıs. Java. . . 
ves 2-31 by 1-14 in., base acute, glabrous in age; petiole 4-4 in. Cyme- 
utteles Stout and sepals densely villous. Corolla 4 in. diam., segments slightly 
Iry at the base. 
ls T. Grifüthii, Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 505; leaves elliptic-oblong or 
anceolate cuspidate, young glabrous beneath, cymes short, coronal scales not 
mertopping the anther-cells, stigma short enlarged upwards, tip notched. 
CG xarpus sp. Grif. Notul. iv. 69, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 404 (Asclepiadee),— 
Omnaracea, Wall. Cat. 8550. 
Lo JENASSERIM, Griffith, $e. Maracca, Maingay (Kew distrib. 1105). SINGAPORE, 
Le ENANG, Porter, l 
Corola 2-4 by 1-2 in., base acute or rounded ; petiole 3-3 in. Cymes few-fid. 
a “Segments slightly hairy at the base, the hairs disposed in a triangle like the 
ste scale of T. acuminaius. Follicles 12 in., very slender, flexuous, cylindric. 
l in., very slender, not beaked. 
qo 
as rally himalensis, Falc. mss.; leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate or 
top indt. obtusely cuspidate, young pubescent beneath, coronal scales over- 
Ping the anther-cells, stigma slender unequally 2-fid. 
