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VII. On a deformed Character of the Genu* Cryptolepis, Brawn, By Hugh 

 Falconer, M.D., Superintendent of the Hon. East India Company's Botanu 

 Garden at Saharunpore. Communicated by J. F. Rovle, M.D., F.ll.s.. 

 F.L.S., fa 



Read June 15th, 1841. 



Cryptolepis, R. Brown in Mem. Werner. Soc, vol. i. p. 69. (Pertnitekte B<>- 



tanische Schrift., ii. p. 405.). 



Char. Gen. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis, 5-tida; tubo intus processulms 

 5, carnosis, obtusis, inclusis, cum limbi laciniis alternantibus, instructo; faucc inula. 

 Stamina imo corolla? tubo inserta, inclusa; filamenta brevissima, distincta; tmik 

 sagittata?, dorso penicillato-barbata?, basi stigmatis raargini adharrentes. Mass<e poll'v- 

 nis solitaria?, granulosa?, corpusculi glandulaeformis appendicular lineari tcnuissima; ap- 

 plicita?. Ovaria 2. Stylus brevissimus. Stigma dilatatum, margine attenuatum, apiculo 

 conico. Squamulce hypogynee nulla?. Folliculi divaricatissimi, ventricosi, acuti, recti. 

 Semina ad umbilicum comosa. 

 Frutex volubilis, glaberrimus, mcco lacteo scatens; foliis opposite, breve petiolatis, late tMp- 

 ticis, cum acumine mbulato brevi, supra late virentibus, subtus albido-glaucis, transversa 

 venosis; petiolis supra basin articulatis ; corymbis axillaribm, breve pedunculate cur- 

 talis - floribus subsessilibus, majusculis, citrinis, corolla? limbo patulo, segmentis UgMh. 

 Cryptolepis Buchanani, Roem. et Schult. Syst., iv. p. 409. 

 C. reticulata, Royle Illustr., p. 270. 

 Nerium reticulatum, Roxb. Flor. Ind., ii. p. 9. 

 Hob. passim in India Orientali. 



Mr. Brown, in his celebrated monograph, in the ' Memoirs of the Wernerian 

 Society,' refers the genns Cryptolepis, which he there establishes, to the Ap„- 

 cynece, placing it next to Apocynum. He has been followed in this respect by 

 all subsequent systematic authors. I find the same position assigned to rt by 

 the latest authorities, such as Endlicher, Lindley, &c, who seem to have taken 

 Mr. Brown's definition on trust, from not having had an opportunity of veri- 

 fying it by an appeal to specimens of the plant. But besides these author 

 Dr. Wight, the last writer on the Indian Asclepiade*, in his excellent Mono- 



