Fentatbopis.] ASCII riADAClW. 51 



half-way down, lobes triangular, acute, valvate at the base, tipg 

 overlapping to the right in bud. Corona-scales 6, erect, ovate 

 or lanceolate, attached to the staminal column, 2-keeled within. 

 Stamens inserted nt the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, 

 connate; anthers erect, tipped with an inhVxed membranous append- 

 age ; pollen-masses one in each cell, oblong, compressed, pendulous 

 waxy. Stigma depressed or snbeonvex, not exserted beyond the 

 anthers. Follicles oblong and obtuse, or lanceolate and acute, often 

 solitary. Seeds comose. — Species 4, in Trop. Asia and Africa. 



O. csculcntum, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i, 40 ; Royle III. 274; F. B. 

 I, »v, 17 ; Watt E. D. ; Train Beng. PI. 688 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 152 

 Teriploca esculenta, Linn.f. ; Roxb. Cor. PI. i, 13. t. 11. Asclopias rosea, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 40. 



A glabrous climbing perennial herb. Stems many, slender, much 

 branched. Leaves deciduous, thin, pale green, 1^-4 in. long, lanceolate 

 or linear, acute or acuminate, the base acute rounded or cordate, 

 petioles i in. long, very slender. Flowtrs drooping, 1 in. or more in 

 diam. ; peduncles slender, often exceeding the leaves. Calyx-lobes 

 oblong- lanceolate, acute. Corolla rotate, rose-coloured with purple 

 veins or nearly white ; lobes -| in. long, with ciliate edges. Corona- 

 ecales acuminate, with incurved subulate tips. Style-apex slightly 

 convex. Follicle* glabrous, 2-2i in. long, ovoid-lanceolate, tapering 

 to a point. Seeds many, ^ in. long, brcadly ovate, flat ; coma £ in. 

 long. 



Found in many parts of the area, especially in the sub -Himalayan tracts 

 of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh, also in Bundelkhand, nsually growing 

 near water. Fluwers Sept.-Dec. JJistkib. Punjab to Ceylon, Bombay, 

 N. and E. Bengal, Burma, extending to China and Java. The fruit is 

 said to be eaten in Sind, and the milky juice and roots are used 

 melicinally. 



8. PENTATROPIS. R. Br. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 19. 



Slender twining herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled> 

 usually 6mall. Flowers small, on slender pedicels, arranged in 

 axillary umbellifonn cymes, purplish. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 

 rotate, 5-partite ; lobes elongate, overlapping to the right, twisted to 

 the left. Corona of 5 laterally compressed scales adnate vertically 

 to the backs of the anthers. Stamens attached to the base of the 

 corolla, filaments connate, anthers with membranous inflexed append- 

 ages ; pollen-masses one in each cell, not compressed, pendulous, 

 wixy. Stigma subtruncate. follicles small, glabrous, lanceolate 

 and with narrowed beak. Seeds comose. — Species about 6, in Trop. 

 Asia, Africa and Australia. 



