Glossonema.] XCV. ASCLEPIADEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 17 
Scinn, Vicary, Frere, Stocks.— DrsTRIS. Beluchistan, Persia. 
Annual? Branches 4-6 in., stout, erect or decumbent. Leaves 1-2 in., often as 
broad, base acute, nerves obscure; petiole 1-1 in. Flowers yellowish, 4 in. diam. 
Follicles 2-3 in., ovoid, turgid, beaked, fleshy; spines very stout, soft, scattered. 
Seeds à in., broadly ovate, flattened, pale yellow-red, margins thin. 
18. OXYSTELMA, Dr. 
Twining glabrous herbs or undershrubs. Leaves narrow, opposite. Flowers 
large, in loose racemose or umbelliform cymes or solitary, pedicels filiform. 
Calyx small, 5—co -glandular within. Corolla broadly ureeolate, or campanulate 
or rotate; lobes ciliate and subva!vate below, tips overlapping to the right, 
Corona double, corolline annular, at the base of the corolla, papillose within, 
margin membranous, truncate ; staminal of 5 scales adnate to the bases of the 
stamens with cordate or dilated bases, 9-keeled within. Filaments short, 
connate; anther-tips membranous, inflexed; pollen-masses one in each cell, 
oblong, compressed, pendulous, waxy. Stigma depressed, or subconvex. Fellicles 
thick, oblique or curved, smooth or narrowly 2-winged. Seeds comose.— 
Disrtp. Species 4; tropical Asia and Africa. 
o. esculentum, 7;.; leaves lanceolate linear-lanceolate or linear finely 
acuminate, base acute rounded or cordate, corolla 1 in. diam. ciliate, follicles 
oblong lanceolate or ovoid. Wight Contrib. 54; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 121; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 150; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. t. 22; Griff. Notul. iv. 
61, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 399, 400; Wall. Cat. 8219; Mig. Fl. Ind, Bat. iii. 
483; Dene. in. DC. Prodr. viii. 542. O. Wallichii, Wight Contrib. l.c. ; Dene. 
l, ¢.; Wall. Cat, 8220, Periploca esculenta, Zinn. f. Suppl. 168; Roxb. Cor. 
Pl. i. 13, t. 11. Asclepias rosea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 40, and 
As. Research, iv. 268 (DoogdAdika). 
Throughont the plains and lower hills of Innra; from the Punjab to Ceylon, 
ssam, Pegu and Tenasserim.—DISTRIB. Ava, Java. 
A deciduous-leaved very slender climbing perennial. Leaves 4-6 by 4-1 in., 
membranous, nerves many, uniting far within the margin; petiole j in., very slender. 
det few-fid., peduncles and pedicels capillary. F/owers white and rose-coloured 
"th purple veins, Follicles 2-3 in., ‘rather membranous. Seeds very numerous, 
follia broadly ovate, flat.—O. Wallichii of Wight differs only in the more oblong 
eles rounded at the end, 
19. CALOTROPIS, 2. 
es ett, glabrous or hoary shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, broad, sub- 
glands lowers medium-sized in umbelliform or subracemose cymes. Sepals 
Cor ular within, Corolla broadly campanulate ; lobes broad, naked, valvate. 
| eot scales 5, fleshy, laterally compressed, radiating from the large staminal 
| one in dorsally spurred. Anther-tiys membranous, inflexed; pollen-masses 
| "lobed each cell, pendulous flattened, waxy. Stigma depressed, 5-angled or 
Asia and A short, thick. Seeds comose.—D1srriB.. Species 3; tropical 
eicilo €. gigantea, Br. in Hort. Kew. Ed. 9, ii. 78; sub-arboreous, leaves 
Neat ee and umbels cottony, corolla-lobes spreading, coronal-scales 
M. t, 155 - Hamit. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 245; Wight Contrib. 53, and 
Brang. pr’, 190A. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 149; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 120; 
in DO per kt 331; Griff. Notul. iv. 68, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 397, 398; Dene. 
Hort, fangs viii 585; Bot. Reg. t. 58. Asclepias gigantea, Willd. ; Roxb. 
VOL, rv, 20, and FX. Ind. ii. 30. ; 
