1066 ASCLEPIADACEAE 
—8 mm. long.—(PINK-ALLAMANDA. ml )—Hammocks, roadsides, and 
waste- Bree S Fla. Nat. of Africa ?—(W. I .) 
3. FUNASTRUM Fourn. Vines with narrow or broad leaf-blades. Calyx 
5-lobed. Corolla rotate: lobes broad, glabrous within. Anthers coherent. 
[Philibertia B. & H. not H.B.K. Phili- 
bertella Vail.]—About 30 species, of tropical 
and subtropical America. 
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blades 3-8 long, ovate-elliptie to el- 
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A. Gray Philibertella clausa ail]—Coastal 
hammoeks and lake regions, pen. Fla. and 
the Keys— (W. I. Mex., C. A., S. A.)— 
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4. PODOSTIGMA Ell Erect herbs, with narrow leaf-blades. Calyx- 
lobes 5. Corolla eampanulate. Hoods incurved; blades remote from the 
anthers which are elevated on a slende 
column.—One spec 
1. P. pedicellata (Walt) Vail. Ste 
usually simple, 24 dm. tall; E Pd 
linear, lanceolat te, or linear-elli iptie 
long: aps lobes lanceolate or a 
lanceolat 2 2.5 mm. long: corolla yellowish 
or ccn yellow; ge lines -elliptie 7-8 
mm. long: hoods 2.5-3 mm. long: follicles 
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plant i cylindraceous 
yellow or een yellow corolla ei 
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grow in pineland subm dec] parts of the 
year and send their elongate roots far down in the wet sand. 
5. ACERATES Ell Erect or spreading herbs, with narrow or relatively 
narrow leaf-blades. Calyx-lobes 5. Corolla rotate, green: lobes reflexed. 
Hoods approximate to the anthers, the column very short and stout, or slender, 
or wanting: follicles fusiform.—About 8 species, North American.—GREEN- 
MILK WEEDS | 
Crown stalked; hoods oval or obovate: pollinia with short thick bases. 
Ho S with erect tips: Dee n curved-appressed Lr. 
ellipsoid : androe uch exceeding the crow 1. A. floridana. 
CI globose or depressed nndroecium slightly: orcas 
the crow 2. A. delticola. 
Hoods with oor aang: tips: pedicels with spreading hair 3. A. hirtella. 
Crown not stalked ; ris elliptic to lanceolate: pollinia "with EM 
slender stalk-like base 4, A. viridiflora. 
