7. OxYSTELMA.] 90. ASCLEPIDACE.E. 



Corona double, corolline annular papillose or villous within and with 

 membranous margin, staminal of 5 scales with cordate or dilated 

 bases and 2-keeled wdthin. Anthers with membranous inflexed tip. 

 Pollinia 1 in each cell pendulous oblong compressed. Follicles thick 

 oblique or curved. 



1. 0. esculentum, Br. 



A pretty slender twiner with linear or narrow-lanceolate finely 

 acuminate leaves 3-5" long with many sec. nerves looping within the 

 margin. Fls. 1" diam., corolla white or pink, veined with purple, 

 margins densely villous. Follicles oblong l'5-2" long. 



Along the Nepal frontier. Purneab, Xurz ! Along the Ganges, above Patna. 

 Fl. July-Sept. Fr. Nov. Perennial, deciduous. 



8. PERGULARIA, L. 



{Vide N. E. Brown in Keiv Bulletin, 1907, p. 323.) 

 Twining, more or less hairy or tomentose, herbs or shrubs with 

 cordate leaves and greenish white or yellowish, salver-shaped, short- 

 tubed, flowers in racemiform or corymbiform cymes with filiform 

 pedicels. Sep. glandular within. Corolla-lobes broad, overlapping to 

 right. Corona double, corolline at base of staminal tube, annular, 

 5-10-lobed or -crenate, staminal of 5 laterally compressed processes 

 adnate to the anthers and meeting over the top of the stigma, 

 prominently spurred behind towards base. Anther with membranous 

 inflexed tip. Pollinia 1 in each cell sub- compressed, pendulous 

 waxy. Follicles echinate. 



1. P. extensa, N. E. Br. Syn. Dsemia extensa, Br. ; Mosiphul, Kharw. ; 

 Chagul-bati, Beng. ; Uturdi, Or. 



A slender subhispidly hairy or glabrate foetid climber with mem- 

 branous orbicular or broadly ovate, deeply cordate, acuminate leaves 

 2-4" long and broad, and green, or yellowish-green, and red flowers 

 •6-*7" diam (with white corona) in long-stalked, sometimes panicled, 

 drooping corymbs. Follicles l'5-2", lanceolar with long soft spines. 



Palamau, in village hedges ! Puri, ditto ! Angul, very common, in hedges, and 

 also occurs in the forests about Antulia and Baghmunda ! Fl. Oct.-Dec Fr. 

 Dec- Jan. 



L. pubescent beneath, apex sometimes caudate, basal lobes rounded incurved 

 sinus very broad. Petiole about as long as leaf. Peduncles 2-6", pedicels *5-2". 

 Sepals short erect '12'' with 2 small glands within, pubescent. Cor.-tube slightly 

 exceeding sepals, lobes spreading densely villous-ciliate, linear- or ovate-oblong 

 with reflexed margins. Corolline corona slightly exceeding tube with 5 oblong 

 truncate petaloid lobes and small inflexed intermediate lobes. Pollinia clavate 

 compressed. 



The flowers and leaves are eaten in Palamau. 



9. RAPHISTEMMA, Wall. 

 Twining shrubs with large white floAvers in long-peduncled umbel- 

 liform cymes. Calyx 5-glandiilar within. Corolla Avith campanulate 

 tube and oblique or spreading lobes, twisted in bud and overlapping 

 to the right. Staminal corona of 5 scales which are produced into 

 long slender linear tails meeting over the column. Column large, 

 anthers with an inflexed membranous tip, pollinia 1 in each cell, not 



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