Sarcostemma.] XCV. ASCLEPIADEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 27 
Deccan PENINSULA; not uncommon in dry rocky places. Burma, Wallich. 
Stem as thick as a goose-quill, green ; joints 4-6 in. long. Umbcls sessile, 1-14 
in. diam., many-fld.; pedicels j in., puberulous. Sepals small, ovate. Corolla À in. 
diam., pale greenish-white; lobes ovate or oblong, obtuse. Corona and column to- 
gether rounded, very obtuse. ^ Follicles 4-5 by i in., thinly coriaceous, tip fine 
straight. Seeds flattened, 3-1 in. long, ovate. 
2. S. Brunonianum, Wight $ Arn. Contrib. 59; umbels chiefly 
lateral, flowers yellow, column very short, inner processes of corona almost 
concealing the anthers, stigma very shortly conical, follicles as in S. brevistigma. 
Wight Ic. t. 1282; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 538; Bot. Mag. t. 6002. 
Deccan PxNiINSULA, ascending to 4000 ft. in the Nilgherries. CEYLON. 
Apparently more slender than S. brevistigma, with smaller, chiefly lateral, umbels 
of bright yellow flowers. 
3. S. intermedium, Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 538; umbels terminal 
and axillary, flowers white, column ovoid, inner processes of corona oblong 
subacute, stigma fusiform simple or 2-fid, follicles broad at the base narrowed 
to the tip thinly coriaceous. S. viminale, Wight & Arn. Contrib. 59; Wight 
Ic. t. 1281 ; ? Wall. Cat. 8232, not of Brown. 
Deccan PENINSULA, in arid jungles. 
The elongate column, narrower dorsal processes of the anthers and longer stigma 
are the characters of this. The follicles when in pairs spread but do not divaricate 
as in the following. 
4. S. Stocksii, Hook. f.; umbels terminal, column very short, inner 
processes of corona almost concealing the anthers, stigma very shortly conical, 
follicles short spreading horizontally poinard-shaped nearly cylindric subacute 
hard thickly coriaceous. S. brachystigma (by error for brevistigma), Hook. Ic. 
Pi. t. 861. 
Scinp, Stocks. 
Apparently a much more robust plant than any of the preceding, with the flowers 
of S. brevistigma, but widely different follicles, which are 24~3 in. long, rigid, almost 
woody, cylindric but tapering very gradually from the base to the straight stout 
point; peduncle very short and thick; the seeds are nearly 4 in. long, linear-oblong, 
thicker than in its congeners. 
TRIBE 4. MARSDENIEZ. 
98. SARCOLOBWUS, Pr. 
Twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, crowded in 
axillary corymbiform cymes. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla sub-campanulate ; 
lobes 5, ovate, overlapping to the right. Corona 0. Column very short; 
anthers broad, tip inflexed ; pollen-masses one in each cell, erect, waxy, elongate, 
with long twisted pedicels. Stiyma flat. Follicles thick, fleshy, globose and 
smooth, or oblong and 2-keeled. Seeds large, coma 0.—DIstTRIB. Species 2-3 ; 
Malayan and E. Asiatic. 
1. S. globosus, Wall. in Asiat. Research. xii. 568, t. 4, and Cat. 4468; 
leaves 3-4 in. oblong or ovate acuminate or obtuse and apiculate, corolla-lobes 
pubescent within, fruit large globose. Wight Contrib. 47, and lc. t. 1273; 
Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 625. S. carinatus, Griff. Notul. iv. 53, and in Ic. 
Pl, Asiat. t. 410 (not of Wall.). 
SuNDERBUNDS and eastwards to Mercur, Maracca and the NICOBAR Israwps. 
