Alyxia.]} ASCLEPIADACEAE, 299 
osed. Drupes often twin in a single flower and stipitate, fleshy, black, 
hes: agree sometimes ‘curved, 7—10’ long, acuminate at both ends, 
not rarely lomentaceous; the chartaceous endocarp lined by 6 prominent 
urrows. Embryo cylindrical, 2/s the length of the horny albumen, the 
radicle little longer than the fleshy cotyledons, superior (inferior and 
sli ce tig according to Wawra). — DC. Prod. VIII, 347. — Gray, in 
Isept. U. — Wawra, in Flora 1874 p. 365, — The direction of 
the a ae depends upon the position of the seed which becomes 
developed, for it is to be supposed that the upper ovule curves upwar 
and the lower downward. 
All islands, in the woods of the lower and middle regions. 
B var. — Leaves mostly opposite, rarely ternate, broadly ovate 
or ey oar mostly obtuse, 1'/4—2‘ >< %j4—1!/4‘. Drupes ovoid or 
obovoid, about 6” long. — A. sulcata, Hook. ae in Bot. Beech. p. 90. 
Oahu! on both ranges. 
2 var. lanceolata. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, often emarginate 
t the base, binate, ternate or quaternate, 1!/2--15/4‘ x 6—8“. Peduncles 
tacit 8—5-flowered. Lobes of corolla '/2 the length of the short 
ube rupes oblong, aed ry ree at both ends. 
Woods of Kaanapali, W. Ma 
8 var. il aay abla — Leaves in whorls of 3 and 4, small oblong 
or obovate ‘> 2—4" obtuse at both ends or contracted at the 
base, ise Bea Peduncle SiO 4—5- flowered. Calyx 
d potettn sion tonal i lobed. Drupe short ovoid, 4—6" 
eae E. and W. Maui! 
itudinal Sate of the putamen, which correspond to as many ridges on its 
d connected 
by n weaker transverse ba ch indicate the horizontal infoldings 
of the i itudinal an erse tions the folds appear as straight n 
nuous, not wavy lines. — The fragrant and eae branches of the «Maile» are in grea 
favor — the natives 4 decorating their houses and «lanais» on festive occasions. The 
name «Maire» is applied in Tahiti to pret stellata. 
Orper LY. ASCLEPIADACEAE. 
Character mostly of Apocynaceae, but the filaments chine and the 
pollen-grains of each cell cohering in waxlike masses — pollinaria — 
which, having a glandular appendage, are connected with the pentagonous 
stigma by 5 projections of the latter. Fruit of 2 follicles. Seeds several, 
usually terminating in a see of silky hairs, with thin albumen. — Mostly 
herbs or twiners, often milky. Leaves generally opposite. Flowers in 
ee or none rik racemes or um 
tropical, to which belong Hoya carnosa, Stephanotis floribunda, 
Caistropi stropisoigantca, Cryptostegia grandiflora, and neta ph of Stapelia, all cultivated 
