Stocksiane. N. O. Asclepiadee. 
TAB. DCCCI.XI. 
SARCOSTEMMA BRACHYsTIOMA, Wight. 
Aphyllum, ramis teretibus crassis, umbellis terminalibus laterali- 
usque, pedicellis calyceque glabris, corolle laciniis ovatis 
obtusiusculis glabris, corona staminea exteriore 10-crenata 
interiore foliolis ovatis dorso-gibbosis gynostegium squanti- 
us, stigmate mutico. 
Sarcostemma brachystigma, W7 2 et Arn. Contrib.to Bot. of India, 
Pr. 59. Jacquem. pode nd t. p. 107. ¢.113. Decaisne in 
.8.p 
becca of beth Walk MSS. ( Ia rosie 
Asclepias acida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p 
a. 
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Coromandel, Wight and Arnott. Scinde, Dr. Stocks. 
Roxburgh is silent in regard to any precise locality of this 
plant, observing, that it is a “native of hedges, forests, &c., but 
by no means common.” Drs. Wight and Arnott give Coroman- 
del as the habitat. Decaisne, in Jacquemont, observes “ locus 
2 
panied by a drawing, from which our figure is made) from Scinde. 
We have not seen living plants, but ae who have done so 
speak of it as a climber, though our specimens scarcely indicate 
that. The stems are as thick as a swan’s quill, succulent, terete, 
jointed at the setting on of the branches, everywhere glabrous, 
ea: 
of five gibbous connivent folioles, which come to a point. Fruit, 
which does not seem to be known to any author, consists of two 
horizontally spreading, cylindrical, slightly acuminated follicles. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Underside of ditto. /. 3. The double 
corona. /. 4. Corona cut through vertically. 5. Pollen-masses, 
J. 6. Follicles :—natural size. f. 7. Seed :—all but f. 6 more 
or less magnified. 
