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in its throat; anthers sagittate, acute, gla- 
ITOUSS.: .> ET CUE cite siete eh ith to WAP HLOMACITE. 
Filaments connate ; throat-scales thread-like, 
much longer than the corolla. . . . » « 3. LEPTOPETIA. 
Tribe 2. Secamonrm. Anthers 4-celled, glabrous; filaments connate. 
Pollen-masses 20, very minute, erect, affixed in fours to each of the 5 cor- 
puscles of the stigma. 
Corolla subrotate, without scales in throat ; corona 
of 5 compressed, faleate folioles adnate to the 
BeeeRE 8 ss wt; es Sy SEOAMONE, 
Tribe 8. EvASCLEPIADER®. Filaments connate; anthers 2-celled. Pol- 
len-masses 10, attached in pairs to each of the 5 corpuscles of the stigma, 
pendulous. 
1. Corona-staminea 0. 
Corolla paanppeds ; throat and tube without 
scales. . 5. ASTEPHANUS. 
Corolla ur ceolate ; ; " lobes very short, “inflexed- 
yalvate ; tube hairy within at base an 6. Hamax. 
Corolla urceolate ; lobes short, twisted to the 
left, imbricate; tube 5 -angled, with 5 pro- 
minences alternating with as many tufts 
Seecnexed hairs -. =. =. ss 0%, %. MICROLOMA. 
2. Corona of 5, simple, entire or 2-fid folioles, 
without crests or horns on their inner sur- 
face (sometimes with a short, projecting 
lamella). 
Hrect herbs or halfshrubs (not twiners). 
Stigma prolonged beyond the anthier-tips. 
Corona of 5 rounded folioles. Stigma 
pyramidal. . . : 8. PaRAPODIUM. 
Corona of 5 erect, fleshy, oblong, obtuse, 
broadly-claw ed folioles. Stigma cylin- 
drical, capitate . . 9. CoRDYLOGYNE. 
Corona of 5 lanceolate- acuminate, flat, 
dorsally-keeled folioles. Stigma barrel- 
Buapedi. | = . . . 10. Krepsta. 
Stigma aBpiceted or flat, pentagonal. 
Corona of 5 subulate, erect, keeled fo- 
lioles, Eerie furrowed on the 
face. . . 11. Macxkenta. 
Corona of 5 cordate or oblong, flat, ‘ob- 
tuse folioles, narrowed at base . . . 12. PrRi@uossum. 
Corona of 5 fleshy, broad-based, ovate, 
roundish, oblong or ios shaped fo- 
lieles =.) : . - . 138. XYSMALOBIUM. 
Twining shrubs or halfshrubs. 
Corona of 5 oblong, tongue-shaped folioles, 
with narrow, veflexed margins at the base 
of the gynostege . . 14. GLOSSOSTEPHANUS. 
Corona of 5 membranous, thin, flat folioles, 
at the summit of the gynostege . . « 15, OncrnEMA. 
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