38 XCV. ASCLEPJADEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pergularia. 
Follicles lanceolate, terete, rather turgid. Seeds ovate, concave.— DISTRIB. 
Species about 10; Asiatic and African. 
The excessively sweet-scented P. odoratissima, Smith (Icones Pictz, t. 15), is stated 
to be Indian, but the plant so called by Roxburgh, Wight, &c., is P. minor. Smith's 
figure exactly resembles P. pallida, which is nearly scentless. 
* Pollen-masses elongate-clavate or subcylindric. 
1. P.pallida, Wight § Arn. Contrib. 42 ; leaves ovate-cordate acuminate, 
flowers scarcely fragrant, corolla yellowish white, lobes linear much larger than 
the tube which is glabrous within, coronal scales with broad points not spurred 
behind. Wall. Cat. 8181; Wight Ic. t. 585; Brand. For. Fl. 334; Kurz For. 
Fi. ii. 208; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 619. P. coromandeliana and P. montana, 
Dene. l.c. Asclepias pallida, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 48. 
Tropica, HrwArAYa; from Murree ascending to 5000 ft. eastward to Srxxim and 
southward on the plains to Bompay and CENTRAL INDIA, BEHAR and BIRMA. 
Except by the absence of the sweet scent and pale flowers I do not know how 
this can be distinguished from Smith's figure and description of P. odoratissima. 
Follieles in Roxburgh's figure 6 in. long and 1 broad (13 as drawn partially open), 
lanceolate. Seeds 4 in. long, broadly ovate. 
** Pollen-masses globosely obovoid or obscurely broadly obconic. 
2. P. minor, Andr. Bot. Rep.t. 184; leaves orbicular or ovate cordately 
2-lobed acuminate, flowers very fragrant yellow or green, corolla-lobes oblong 
about equalling the tube or shorter, tube pubescent above within, coronal 
scales double inner with a long subulate point. Bot. Mag. t. 755. P. odora- 
tissima, Wight Contrib. 43, and Ic. t. 414. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 903. Asclepias 
odoratissima, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20; and Fl. Ind. ii. 46; Wall. Cat. 8182; 
Grah, Cat. Bomb. Pi. 120. 
Cultivated or native throughout India, and the Eastern Islands, China and Japan; 
native of the Himalaya (Brandis).  Tsegai hills in Ava, Griffith. 
Though confounded with P. odoratissima, this appears to be perfectly distinct in 
the smaller flowers and short broad corolla-lobes. Follicles lanceolate, 3 in. long 
by i in. diam.; pericarp thick, glabrous, Seeds i in. long, broadly ovate.—The 
coronal scales vary excessively in length acuteness and in the comparative length 
of the outer and inner divisions. 
3. P. puberula, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 495; leaves ovate or oblong- 
ovate acuminate, base rounded or cordate, sepals broadly ovate, corolla pubes- 
cent without and within, lobes linear longer than the tube, coronal scales 
laterally compressed 2-winged dorsally below produced into an inflexed subu- 
late point exceeding the anthers. 
Penana, Phillips.— Distr. Java. 
Habit of P. pallida, from which the short sepals, pubescent corolla, and laterally 
much-flattened scales which project far outwards from the column. and the form of 
the pollen-masses, at once distinguish it. 
34. STEPHANOTIS, Thouars. 
_Twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Cymes umbelliform, 
axillary; flowers large, white. Calyx 5-partite, segments large. Corolla 
coriaceous, tubular or salver-shaped, tube cylindric, base swollen ; lobes twisted, 
overlapping to the right. Coronal scales 0 in the Indian species (in others 
adnate to the anthers, erect, dorsally flattened). Column very short; anthers 
with an inflexed tip; pollen-masses one in each cell, erect, waxy, shortly 
