1 50 AsclepiadeCB. \Holostemma. 



tubular, crenately lobed and with 5 large, vertical, adnate 

 processes spurred at base and with subulate points prolonged 

 over stigma, pollen-masses i in each cell, pendulous, slightly 

 compressed ; stigma flat on top ; follicles tapering to long 

 beak, covered with soft spines; seeds with long coma. Sp. 6; 

 \'vc\ Fl. B. Ind. 



I>. extensa, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kezu., ed. 2, ii. 76 (181 1). M^da- 

 hang-u, .v. Uttamakain, Veliparatti, T. 



Cyiianclmm echitiation, Thunb. Obs. in Cynanch, 8. Gomphocarpus 

 volubilis, Moon Cat. 20. Thw. Enum. 196. C. P. 1841. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 20. Wight, Ic. t. 596. Bot. Mag. t. 5704 {Raphisteiwna 

 ciliattitti). 



A perennial herb, stems twining, more or less hispid, with 

 short spreading hair and minute prickles; 1. 2-4 in., and nearly 

 as broad, deeply cordate at base, with rounded lobes, acute, 

 slightly hairy on both sides, ciliate, thin ; fl. on long, slender, 

 pubescent ped., cymes at first corymbose, afterwards racemose, 

 peduncles coming off from between the bases of petioles, much 

 longer than 1., bracts linear, acute ; scp. lanceolate, acute, 

 slightly ciliate; cor. nearly | in. diam., lobes acute, hairy above, 

 ciliate, concave, spreading; follicles 2-2^ in., reflexed, long- 

 beaked, spines long, soft. 



Low country ; rather common, especially in the dry districts. Fl. 

 Feb.-May ; pale green. 



Also in India and Affghanistan. 



Has a slightly fetid odour when bruised. The plant, which has 

 emetic pioperties, is given as an expectorant in bronchitis, &c. 



9. HOIiOSTEMXtlA, Br. 



Semi-shrubby twiner, 1. cordate, fl. large, cymes axillary, 

 corymbose, cal. divided to base into 5 sep. ; cor. subrotate, 

 thick, lobes 5, divided § down, broad, concave, valvate, corol- 

 line corona annular, slightly lobed ; column prominent, stam. 5, 

 fil. connate, broad, anth. very large, winged on the back; tips 

 membranous, incurved over stigma, pollen-masses i in each 

 cell, narrow, compressed, pendulous on long black pedicels; 

 staminal corona o; stigma large, prominently 5-angled ; fol- 

 licles thick, obtuse; seeds comose. — ^Sp. 2 ; i in Fl. />. Ind. 



K. Rheedel, Wall. Cat.n. 4469 (1828). 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 164. C. P. 3582. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 2i. Wight, Ic. t. 597. 



A rather large perennial, woody at the base, stems twining, 

 much branched, glabrous and shining; 1. rather large, 3-5 in.. 



