244, LXXX. ASCLEPIADER. 
H. Gordoni, Sw., our only species, is an erect, fleshy and thorny, many- 
angled succulent, bearing solitary, shield-shaped, delicate flowers, 2-4 inches 
n diameter.—Native of Namaqualand. 
Orprr LXXXI. APOCYNEZ. 
Calyx 5-(or 4-)parted, imbricate. Corolla hypogynous, ga- 
mopetalous, regular, 5-(or 4-)lobed, deciduous, twisted-imbri- 
cate in bud. Stamens on the corolla, as many as its lobes, 
and alternate with them ; filaments distinct ; anthers 2-celled ; 
pollen powdery. Carpels 2, either distinct or united into a 
bilocular ovary ; styles confluent upwards; stigmal. Fruit 
follicular, capsular, berried or drupaceous. Seeds many or 
few; albuminous.—Shrubs or rarely herbs, mostly with a 
milky, poisonous juice. Leaves mostly opposite, quite entire, 
without stipules. Chiefly tropical and subtropical. 
Ovary single, 2-celled. 
Ovules solitaryin each cell. . . . . . . 2, ToxicoPHiaa. 
Ovules more than 1 in each cell. 
No cup-like disk round the ovary. . . . 1. Carissa. 
A cup-like disk girding theovary. . . 3. RavWoLrFia. 
Ovary double, of 2 separate carpels ; style 
simple. 
Calyx tubular- peleheps jill 5-lobed, de- 
CLAUOUBH eee 2 Sens tira rates. 46 LIP TORMNAS 
Calyx 5-parted. 
Trees shrubs or undershrubs, not spiny or 
fleshy. 
Corolla salver-shaped, with short, obtuse 
lobes. 
Linear glands within the calyx, at base 
of lobes; anthers taper-pointed . . 5, TABERNE MONTANA. 
No glands within the calyx; anthers 
obtuse . wae polye ite » On GONTORMAD 
Corolla funnel- -shaped ; lobes very long, 
linear-subulate ; 5 2-partite scales in 
the throat . . . 7. STROPHANTHUS. 
Succulent shrubs, armed with ‘twin- “spines 
in the place of stipules. 
Calyx glandular within at base; anthers 
on short filaments; seeds comose at each 
end |)... . . 8, ADENIUM. 
Calyx-lobes not " glandular within ; an- 
thers sessile; seeds comose at the scar 
Onlysets [+ \iwigerteS: Gt hie-O. pO AC Bae 
1. CARISSA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted; lobes unequal, with a row of subulate, 
fleshy glands at base within. Corolla salver-shaped, the tube 
hairy within. Anthers longer than the filaments, lanceolate, 
