164 Asclepiadece. [Ceropegia. 



20. ZiISPTADENZA, Br. 



Shrubby twiner, fl. small, in umbellate interpetiolar cymes; 

 cal.-segm. 5, small; cor. rotate, lobes 5, with strongly recurved 

 margins, tufted at apex, valvate, corona double, coroUine one 

 5-lobed ; column short, stam. 5, connate, anth. rounded at tip, 

 pollen-masses i in each cell, erect, not compressed, staminal 

 corona only represented by an undulate ring below anth.; 

 follicles not seen. — Sp. 12; 2 in Fl B. Ind. 



Ii. reticulata, W. &= A. Contrib. 47 (1834). Palai, T. 



Cynandium ovatuin, Thunb. Obs. de Cynanch. 6 (?). DcBinia reU£U> 

 lata. Moon Cat. 20. Thw. Enum. 198. C. P. 1846. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 63. Wight, Ic. t. 350. 



Twining shrub, stems long, cylindrical, glabrous or hoary- 

 pubescent, much branched; 1. ij-2| in., ovate, rounded or 

 subacute at base, shortly acuminate, acute, glabrous above, 

 very finely pubescent beneath, petiole |-f in., finely pubes- 

 cent; fl. small, numerous, pedicellate, cymes globose, crowded, 

 on short peduncles from between the petioles ; cal. pubescent, 

 lobes obtuse; cor. about \ in. diam., thick, pubescent on both 

 sides, lobes acute, erect ; follicles " 2^-3 in., straight, turgid, 

 almost woody, smooth." 



Dry country; rather common. Trincomalie (Moon); Puttalam; 

 Mannar; Anuradhapura. Fl. Auj^ust ; greenish-yellow. 

 Also in India, Burma, and Singapore. 



21. CEROPEGIA, Z. 



Twining perennial glabrous herbs, 1. glabrous, thin, fl, 

 few, in umbellate, axillary, pedunclcd cymes; sep. 5, subulate 

 or filiform, glabrous; cor. tubular, often curved, base more or 

 less inflated, upper part usually funnel-shaped, lobes 5, valvate 

 and reduplicate in bud, permanently connate by their tips and 

 forming an open-sided dome; column small, short, stam. 5, 

 connate, pollen-masses i in each cell, erect, corona (staminal) 

 cupular, with 10 (or 5) erect linear lobes externally and 5 

 erect processes internally usually adnate to anth., follicles 

 long, slender, glabrous; seeds comose. — Sp. 50; 36 in FL 

 B. Ind. 



