LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADACE^. 155 



at tlie apex, curving outwards to an acute base. Follicles I5-2I in, 

 long, tapering to a long point, glabrous, the valves much everted after 

 dehiscence. Seeds ^ by g in., ovate, narrowly margined, trunrate at 

 the apex, slightly creuulate at the base ; coma g— | in. long. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 20 ; Grab. Cat. p. 120 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 149 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 352; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 149 : Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 167 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 131.— Flowers : 

 Oct.-Dec. Veri^. Parparam. 



Tolerably common throughout the Presidency. Konkan : Salsette, Graham, Dakell 

 ^- Gibson; Malabar hill (Bombay), Graham. Deccan : Balzell S^' Gih&on; Bijapur, 

 Bhioal, JVoodrow '. ; Gokak, Bhlva\ Gujarat: Dalzell cf- Gibson; Dangs, Bhival 

 — DisTRiB. India (Bengal, Pegu, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



10. D^MIA, E. Br. 



Twining pubescent or tomentose perennial herbs or undershrubf. 

 Leaves opposite, cordate. Flowers medium-sized, in lateral racemose 

 or corymbose pedunculate cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular inside. 

 Corolla yellowish- or greenish-white ; tube short, campauulate or 

 cylindric ; lobes 5, ovate, spreading, overlapping to the right in bud ; 

 corona double, the outer at the base of the staminal-column, membranous, 

 annular, shortly 5-lobed, the lobes subquadrate or oblong, obtuse, 

 truncate or denticulate, the inner corona of 5 erect fleshy lobes spurred 

 at the base, adnate to the staminal-column up to the anthers, free above 

 and produced into subulate horns incurved over the style-apex. 

 Staminal-column arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; anthers 

 erect, with a membranous iuflexed appendage. Style-apex exserted ; 

 pollen-masses waxy, 1 in each anther-cell, compressed, attached in pairs 

 to the pollen-carriers by their attenuated ends without caudicles. 

 Folhcles lanceolate, usually echinate. Seeds comose. — Distkib. Tropical 

 Africa, Tropical and Subtropical Asia ; species 6. 



1. Daemia extensa, It Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 1 (1811) p. 50. 

 A perennial twining herb, foetid when bruised and with much milky 

 juice ; stems clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves thin, 2-4 by Ig-S^ 

 in., broadly ovate or suborbicular, acuminate, glabrous or more or 

 less shortly pubescent above, usually velvety-pubescent beneath, the 

 margins cihate, base deeply cordate, the basal lobes semiorbicular ; 

 petioles f-2| in. long, pubescent. Flowers greenish-yellow or dull 

 white, in lateral cymes which are at first corymbose, afterwards racemose ; 

 peduncles pubescent, coming off from between the petioles, though not 

 quite midway between them, 3-6 in. long or longer ; pedicels capillary, 

 ^-\^ in. long, pubescent; bracts minute, lanceolate, acute. Calyx 

 pubescent, divided to the base ; sepals ^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube narrowly campauulate, ^ in. long ; lobes spreading, 

 i in. long, ovate-oblong, acute, ciliate ; outer corona membranous, sub- 

 quadrate, truncate ; inner corona-lobes l-^ in. long, including the 

 subulate horns which are curved high over the staminal-column, spur 

 acute. Follicles reflexed, 2-3 by ^ in., lanceolate, attenuated into a long 

 beak, echinate with soft spines. Seeds 5 by ^ in., ovate, truncate at the 

 apex, densely velvety-pubescent ou both sides, narrowly margined, 

 crenate at the rounded base ; coma 1-lj in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 20 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 122 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 150 ; Wight, Icon. t. 596 ; Trim. 



