336 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



Older ASCLEPIADE.E. 



Floirers regular, herinajilirodite. Calyx free, deeply 5-parted, or the sepals 

 distinct, often glandular at the base inside, imbricate in bud. Corolla-Unih 5-toothed 

 or lobed, twisted-inibrieate or valvate in bud, the throat with or 'without scales or 

 appendages alternating with the lobes. Stamens .5, inserted at or near the base of 

 the corolla. Filaments short, connate or rarely free. Anthers united in a tube 

 (called gynostegium) inclosing the style, 2- or by division of the cells more or less 

 completely 4-celled, the cells opening inwards, the connective terminating in a short 

 appendage, or more frequently in an inflexed membrane. Stamtnal corona consisting 

 of variously shaped glandular, membranous, or fleshy appendages, attached to the 

 back of the filaments, or the anthers sometimes united in a ring or cup, very rarely 

 wanting. Pollen consolidated into 1 or 2 masses in each anther- cell, attaclied in the 

 opened anther in pairs, or in fours (1 or 2 from each of the adjoining anthers) to 

 small processes of the stigma, between the anthers, and ultimately detached from the 

 stigma. Ovary of 2 distinct cai-pels, each with numerous, or at least several, ovules 

 attached to the inner angle. Styles united immediately above the carpels, and 

 thickened with the anther-tube into an angular body (the so-called stigma), the apex 

 in the centre, either truncate or more or less conical, or elongate and beak-like, entire 

 or 2-lobed. FolUeles paired, or solitary by abortion. Seeds usually pendulous, 

 compressed, often marginate with a long silky tuft of hairs at the hilum, the testa 

 smooth or rough. Albumen scanty. Emhryo straight, with leafy cotyledons, the 

 radicle short and superior. Tinder shrubs or shrubs often twining or scandent, rarely 

 herbs or trees, usually abounding in milky juice. Leaves simple, usually opposite. 

 Stipules none or obsolete. Flowers often small, in racemes or cymes often reduced to 

 nmbels, axillary or lateral from between the opposite petioles. Jjraets small. Bracthts 

 none or very minute. 



Sub-order STAPELEJE. 



Filaments connate. Anthers usually terminated by a simple membrane. Pollinia 

 10, ascending or erect, fixed in pairs to the stigmatic process. Twining plants or 

 fleshy herbs. 



CEROFEGIE,^. 



f Pollen-masses jM'llaeid at the lip or side. 



HoYA, P. Broun. 



IT. HooKERi, 'Wight. (K.). Kamorta. Katchall. 



H. cARXos.i, Br. (M.). 



H. PARVIFLOKA, Wight, (il.). 



H. orhiculata, Wall. (M.). 

 H. LAcuxA, Buch. (M.). 



DiscniDiA, li. Brown. 



D. Bexgalexsis, Coleb. (K.). Kamorta. Katchall on cocoa palms. 



D. NUJiMULARiA, K. Br. (K.). Kamorta. Katchall. 



D. cixEiFOLiA, R. Br. (M.). 



Ceropegia, Linnuus. 



c. LcciDA, Wall. or.). 



C. Arxottiaxa, Wight. (M.). 

 U-ta-lung. 



CAKALLrMA, E. Brown. 



C. FIMBRIATA, Wall. (M.). 



BoNCEROSiA, Wight and Arnott. 



B. CEENULATA, Wight (M.). 



