142 A sclep iadecF. 



small ; cor.-tube narrow below, inflated above, villous at mouth, 

 lobes 5, linear, much overlapping to right ; stam. 5, inserted 

 in wide part of cor.-tube, connivent over and adnate to stigma, 

 disk 5-lobed ; carp, distinct, style short, stigma truncate ; 

 follicles long, linear, slender; seeds linear, not compressed, 

 coma long, copious endosperm. — Sp. 6 ; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



I. frutescens, Ait. Hort. Keiv. ed. 2, ii. 69 (181 1). Kiri-wel, S. 



Herm. Mus. 71. Burm. Thes. 23. Fl. Zeyl. n. 114. Apocynum fru- 

 tescetis, L. Sp. PI. 213. Moon Cat. 20. Thw. Enum. 194. C. P. 1863. 

 Fl, B. Ind. iii. 669. Burm. Thes. t. 12, f. i. 



A large twining shrub, much branched, branchlets long, 

 slender, whip-like, finely fulvous-tomentose; 1. i|-2| in., ovate- 

 oval, rounded at base, acute, glabrous above, slightly hairy 

 and paler beneath, petiole very short; fl. numerous, on short 

 tomentose ped., in clusters of 3, arranged in narrow interrupted 

 cymes; cal. hairy, segm. acute; cor.-lobes undulate, more or 

 less hairy above, ciliate; ov. hairy; follicles 4-6 in., spreading, 

 very slender, at first rusty-pubescent, afterwards glabrous; 

 seeds i in., linear, black, coma i\ in. 



Low country to 3000 ft., especially in the dry region, common. Fl. 

 Dec; yellow. 



Also in India, Java, Burma, Australia. 



LXXXV.— ASCLEPIADE^. 



Herbs or undershrubs nearly always twining, 1. opp. (absent 

 in Sarcostevnnd), entire, without stip. ; fl. regular, bisexual, 

 usually in cymes from the nodes; cal. free, segm. 5, imbricate; 

 cor. usually with a short tube (long in Ceropegid), sometimes 

 with a ring of scales or processes in the throat {coralline 

 corond); lobes 5, valvate or contorted; stam. 5, inserted on 

 base of cor., fil. usually connate into a fleshy tube {column) 

 rarely distinct, usually with fleshy scales or processes on the 

 back {staniinal corond), anth. connate or distinct, adnate by 

 the broad connective to the stigma, usually prolonged into a 

 membranous inflexed tip, 2-ccllcd, pollen combined into 



