144 



AsclepiadecE. 



\_Hei)iidesmiis 



Corona staminal. 



Cor.-lobes more or less contorted. 

 Cor. campanulate . 

 Cor. rotate. 



Coronal processes fleshy, thick 

 Coronal processes scale-like, bifid 

 Coronal processes with a large 

 inflexed tooth above 

 Cor.-lobes valvate. 



Cor. urceolate .... 

 Cor. rotate. 

 Leaves thick 



Leaves thin .... 

 Anth. without a membranous, inflexed tip. 

 Stems twining, slender, cylindrical. 

 Cor. rotate ..... 

 Cor. tubular ..... 

 Stems erect, thick and fleshy, quadran 

 gular , . ... 



13. Marsdeni.\. 



14. Tylophora. 



15. cosmostigma. 



16. Dregea. 



17. DiSCHIDIA. 



18. HOYA. 



19. Heterostemma. 



20. Leptadenia. 



21. Ceropegia, 



22. CARALLUMA. 



I. KEDIIDESDIUS, Br. 



A semi-shrubby twiner, fl. small, cymes axillary ; cal.- 

 segm. 5, very deep, imbricate ; cor. rotate, thick, tube very 

 short, with 5 ridges within, lobes 5, valvate ; stam. inserted 

 at very base of cor.-tube, fil. quite distinct, slender, anth. small, 

 connectives prolonged, covering over stigma, pollen-masses 

 granular, 2 in each cell ; stigma 5 -angled, flat on top, cor- 

 puscles with hooded appendages ; follicles linear, slightly 

 falcate, terete, acuminate, smooth ; seeds oblong, with long 

 coma. — Monotypic. 



K. indicus, Br. in Ait. Hort. Keti>. ed. 2, ii. 75 (181 1). Iramusu, 

 S. Nannari, T. 



Burni. Thes. 187. Fl. Zeyl. n. 113. Pcriploca i/idica, L. Sp. PI. 211. 

 Moon Cat. 20. Thw. Enum. 195. C. P. 183, 1864. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 5. Burm. Thes. t. 83, f. i. Wight, Ic. t. 594. Bentl. 

 & Trim. Med. Pi. t. 174. 



Perennial, with a woody rootstock and numerous very 

 long prostrate or ascending stems, slightly twining, cylin- 

 drical, pubescent, often semi-woody at base, thickened at 

 nodes; 1. very variable, from oblong-oval to linear, acute or 

 rounded at base, subacute or rctuse at apex, apiculate, usually 

 slightly pubescent on veins and margin, pale and shining 

 beneath, veins reticulate, pellucid, petiole very short ; fl. on 

 short pcd., crowded, bracts numerous, ovate, acute; cal.-segm. 



