Orthanthera.] ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 785 
fertile part, with a subulate or narrow appendage or apiculus ; 
anther-wings below the cells decurrent on the filament part, sub- 
parallel. Pollen-masses erect, with a pellucid area at the apex, 
solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers 
by short slender caudicles at their base. Style equalling or shorter 
than the anthers, with a slender conical or needle-like terminal part. 
Follicles terete and acute or fusiform and acuminate, smooth. Seeds 
crowned with a tuft of hairs. 
Herbaceous with prostrate leafy stems, or shrubby with erect parallel branches, 
leafless or with linear leaves ; leaves opposite ; flowers small or of moderate size, 
in pedunculate or subsessile umbels or clusters lateral at the nodes. 
Distris.—Species 3, one in India, and the 2 following also in Tropical Africa. 
Stems prostrate, pubescent or scabrous; corolla-tube 
g-$in. long... = cic pin ... (1) jasminiflora, 
Stems erect, glabrous, white-glaucous; corolla-tube 
rather less than } in. long : sks ane .-» (2) albida, 
1. O. jasminiflora (N. E. Br. ex Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenb. xxx. 265); stems prostrate, 14-15 ft. long, branching, 
pubescent or somewhat scabrous ; leaves spreading, scabrous ; petiole 
1-5 lin. long; blade 3-21 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, linear, lanceolate, 
oblong, ovate to nearly circular, acute or obtuse and apiculate at 
the apex, rounded, truncate, cordate or subhastate at the base, 
rather thick and rigid, often wavy or crisped on the margins; 
umbels pedunculate, 2~13-flowered ; peduncle 41} in. long, scabrous 
or pubescent ; bracts 1-24 lin. long, }-3 lin. broad, subulate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute; pedicels 2-7 lin. long, scabrous or pubes- 
cent ; sepals 14-3 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, pubescent; corolla pubescent all over the outside and 
within the upper part of the tube, cream-coloured ; tube usually 
2—} in. long, rarely less, globose-pentagonal (i.e. with 5 inflations 
between the sepals) at the base, cylindric and 1 lin. in diam. above ; 
lobes usually 44-6 lin. long, rarely less, 14 lin. broad, more or less 
spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, recurved along the margins, 
glabrous on the inner face ; corona-lobes $—3 lin. long, broadly 
A-shaped, adnate to the staminal celumn, with broad free reflexed 
margins ; staminal column 1} lin. long; anthers connivent-erect 
over and about twice as long as the conical acute style-apex, oblong, 
with a subulate or deltoid-lanceolate glabrous appendage 2 as long 
as the cells ; follicles 4 in. long, } in. thick, fusiform, tapering into 
a long beak. K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 
266 and 264, fig. 77, D-E, inaccurate as to anther-tips ; N. E. Br. in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 434. Barrowia jasminiflora, Decne in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 630 ; Delessert, Ic. v. 37, t. 88 (inaccurate as to 
Jig. 1); Harv. Gen. 8. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 240 ; Marloth in Engl. Jahrb. x. 
_ 244; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897,291. Pergularia? jasminiflora, 
Burch. ex Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 630. 
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