Stephanotis.] XCV. ASCLEPIADEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 39 
pedicelled. Stigma conical or shortly beaked, hardly or not exserted. ^ Follicles 
very thick, obtuse or acuminate. Seeds comose.—DISTRIB. Species 14, Mada- 
gascar, Malay Islds. and China. 
S. Maingayi, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves broadly ovate-cordate 
acuminate, cymes on long stout peduncles, sepals large lanceolate acuminate, 
solia: tube l in, lobes lanceolate acuminate, anther-tips long, coronal 
scales 0. 
Matacca ; Maingay (Kew distrib. 1112). 
Branches stout. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., basal sinus acute, nerves about 8 pairs ; 
petiole 4-1 in. Peduncle 2-3 in., few-fld.; pedicels 1-14 in.; bracts subulate. 
Sepals $ in. acuminate, coriaceous. Corolla-tube with 5 hairy ridges at the base 
within, lobes about equalling the tube. Colwmn i the length of the tube. <Anther- 
‘tips as long as the rest of the column, obtuse. Stigma capitate. 
35. LYGISMA, Hook. f. Gen. Nov. 
A puberulous slender much diffusely branched twining shrub. Leaves 
small, opposite, lanceolate. Flowers small,in numerous axillary umbelliform 
cymes. Sepals ovate, eglandular. Corolla salver-shaped, tube very short, lobes 
long, linear, waved, obtuse, the lobes overlapping to the right below the middle, 
the upper half sharply doubled down inwards (buds hence truncate). Corona 
of minute obtuse appressed teeth at the back of the anthers. Column minute, 
fleshy, low, cylindric; anthers very short, with small rounded membranous 
tips; pollen-masses cylindric, clavate, waxy, erect, subsessile on the long cor- 
puscle. Stigma included. 
L. angustifolia, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1423. Marsdenia angustifolia, 
Wight. Contrib. 40; Wall. Cat. 8172 ; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 614. 
Bua ; hills near Prome, Wallich. . 
Leaves 1-2 by i-i in., acute, glabrous when mature, base rounded, triple nerved 
at the base; petiole very short. Cymes in all the upper axils, many-fld.; peduncle 
$3 1m., very slender, pedicels l in. Sepals obtuse, pubescent. Corolla glabrous, i 
in. diam, —A very eurious plant, the only Indian Asclepiad one known to me with the 
Corolla-lobes doubled down inwards in zstivation, rendering the bud truncate. 
36. TYLOPHORA, Br. 
Twining, rarely erect, herbs or undershrubs. Cymes umbelliform or race- 
mose ; flowers small or minute. Sepals ovate or lanceolate. Corolla rotate ; 
lobes broad, slightly overlapping to the right. Coronal processes fleshy, adnate 
to the very short column. Anthers very small with an inflexed tip; pollen- 
masses one in each cell, minute, globose or ovoid, waxy, erect or ascending 
rarely transverse or pendulous from the ascending pedicel. Stigma disciform, 
onal, included. Follicles acuminate, smooth. Seeds ovoid, flat. winged, 
Comose,— DISTRIB. Species about 40 ; Asiatic, African, Australian and Oceanic. 
The minute anthers (larger in T. Iphisia), forming a small ring round the disci- 
form stigma, which is more or less overlapped by the short anther-tips, and the 
adnate usually gibbous or globose coronal processes are the best characters for this 
genus. The position of the pollen-masses, ascending, horizontal, or pendulous, can- 
not be depended upon, and is mos: difficult to ascertain in dried specimens; as is the 
exact form of the fleshy coronal processes. 
* Stem short, erect or suberect, 1-2 ft. (perhaps longer and twining in 7. 
Iphisia), sometimes twining at the tips. 
