236 LXXX. ASCLEPIADED. 
to the base or nearly so; folioles or segments broad-based, 
oblong, flattish or concave, tapering into a medial subulate- 
acuminate lobe, opposite to which, on the face of the foliole, 
is a similar tongue-like process ; lateral lobes or angles short, 
erect or inflexed. Anthers membrane-tipped. Pollinia com- 
pressed, taper-pointed, pendulous. Stigma depressed, muti- 
cous. Follicles clothed with soft shreds—DC. Prod. vii. p. 
555. 
Erect herbs, often with narrow leaves. Umbels axillary, subsessile ; 
flowers small, green or brown.—Several species (some undescribed), dis- 
persed, chiefly Hastern. 
21. SCHIZOGLOSSUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-parted, spreading. Co- 
rona 5-parted; folioles oblong or ovate, subtruncate or obso- 
letely 3-toothed or emarginate at apex, furnished on the face 
with a tongue-shaped or 2-fid or 2-parted process, directed 
towards the stigma. Anthers membrane-tipped. Pollinia 
pendulous. Stigma muticous. Follicles clothed with soft 
shreds.—DC. Prod. viii. p. 553. 
Erect herbs, with the habit of Aspidoglossum, from which this genus dif- 
fers in the corona-folioles wanting the central acumination.—Several species, 
some undescribed. 
22. PENTARRHINUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla deeply 5-fid, the segments spread- 
ing or reflexed. Corona 5-parted; folioles cuneate or ovate, 
truncate, with the entire or basally-lobulate margins inflexed, 
and furnished within with a beak-like, inflexed process. An- 
thers membrane-tipped. Pollinia ovoid or oblong, suspended. 
Gynostege short. Stigma depressed, with two medial nipples. 
Follicles ovoid, fleshy, covered with soft, short shreds.—DC. 
Prod. viii. p. 553; Thes. Cap. t. 11. 
Climbing plants, with deeply cordate, long-peticled leaves and axillary, 
racemose, many-flowered peduncles. Flowers small, greenish. Fruit edible, 
but insipid. 
23. CYNOCTONUM, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-parted. Corona tubular, 
plaited, simple, either subtruncate or 5—10-crenate or toothed 
round the mouth, no inner laciniz. Anthers membrane-tipped. 
Pollinia clavate, subcompressed, pendulous. Stigma 2-lobuled 
or attenuate, with a 2-fid apex. Follicles slender, smooth, 
reflexed.—DC. Prod. v. p. 527. 
Voluble or trailing plants. Leaves cordate or ovate. Peduncles axillary, 
many-flowered ; flowers umbellate, small, brown or white. 
