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primaria purpurascente. Glandule basilares 0. Cilie intra 
petiolares breves. Cymis axillaribus dichotomis, folia exceden- 
tibus, alternis, nec oppositis, paucifloris. Floribus majuscu- 
lis, ochroleucis. 
Cal. 5-sepalis, sepalis ovatis, basi incrassatis post lapsum 
corollz conniventibus, Cor. tubo calyce duplo longiore basin 
versus subampliato, limbo profunde 5-partito in lacinias 5 
lineares revolutas, subcontortasque zstivatio contorta, 
Corpora 5 glandulosa, antheriformia, fundem tubi versus 
inserta, antheris super imposita laciniisque alternantia in 
basibus tubo adnatis. Filam. totidem, laciniis alternantia, 
brevissime basibus corporum inserta. | 
Anth. subsagittatze biloculares longitud. dehiscent. loculis 
omnino anther polliniferis. 
 Connectivum subulatum, subglandulosum pallide virides- 
cens, loculi pariet. exteriori demissius product. 
~ Pollen globosum vix farinaceum, in lobulis vel massis nec 
digestum. Granule composite e 3 vel4 adnatis, mem- 
brana simplex, granulas minutas continens (raphidibus im- 
mixtis ?) 
Ovaria ordinis, Styli 2 breves. Stigma angulis 5 promi- 
nentibus, apice conicum corpuscula dilatata spathulata, pol- 
len colligeis, secus angulos stigmatis applicita spathulate 
clavate, dimidium superius pollinifera, inferne glandula ex- 
sulca albida mucosa, affixa. 
Genus secus Brown Asclepiadeas Apocyneasque intermedi- 
um. Cryptostegie ob structura et adhesione pollinis affinis. 
Pollen, pollen-mass, and caudicula. Pl. CCCCX. A. Fig. 4. 
ight Contr. to India Botany. p. 64. et Arnott. sed 
Streptocaulon, Cryptolepis Buchananii ad Apocyneas re- 
t, ut etiam Bartling, p. 204. 
| Calcutta: June Lih, 1835. 
