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5. CALOTROPIS. Erect shrubs, corolla broad, bell-shaped, 

 follicles short and thick. 



6. PENTATROPIS. Corolla deeply divided, follicles thick, acute. 



7. D.EMIA. Corolla lobes large, spreading, follicles covered 

 with soft prickles. 



8. HOLOSTEMMA. Corona low, annular, 10-lobed, follicles 

 short and thick. 



9. TTLOPHORA. Flowers small, corolla short-tubed, lobes 

 spreading, follicles smooth, pointed. 



10. COSMOSTTGMA. Flowers small, greenish, coronal scales 

 united to the base of anthers, leafy, 2-cleft ; follicles large, 

 obtuse. 



11. DREGEA. Flowers green, coronal scales diverging from 

 the column like the spokes of a wheel ; follicles thick, hard. 



12. HOYA. Leaves thick and fleshy, coronal scales 5, large, 

 margins usually recurved, column short. 



13. LEPTADENIA. Corona double, .of 5 scales between the 

 corolla lobes, and a raised waved wing at the base of the anthers. 



14. CEROPEGIA, Corolla tube very long, swollen and curved 

 at the base, lobes often joined at the tips, corona 5 or 10- 

 lobed, with 5 strap-shaped processes. 



Note. In the above arrangement; of genera, I have ignored H.'s 

 tribes, which depend mainly on peculiarities in the anthers. He 

 says that the analysis of plants in this order is most difficult; and 

 it is certainly not easy to identify genera and species, though there 

 can seldom be doubt about the family. 



Note. Dr. T. Cooke says that the name Kauli is given generally to 

 all plants of this order. 



1. HEMIDESMUS. 



//. Indicus. Small, leaves variable, narrow, often variegated 

 with white, flowers nearly sessile crowded, purple inside, 

 anthers and stigmas combined into a large round knob, follicles 

 very slender, spreading. Anantamul, uparsal. 



Common ; springs up in the Konkan very abundantly at the begin- 

 ning of the rains, but takes a long time to flower, and often dies 

 away without doing so. Called " Country Sarsaparilla " on the Coro- 

 mandel coast. 



Note. The true Sarsapaiilla is produced from various species of 

 Smilax. 



2. CRYPTO LEPIS. 



C. Buclianani. Bark cracked and brown, flowers in nearly 

 sessile cymes, pale yellow, petals long and narrow, leaves 

 elliptic, with a short point, very strongly veined, whitish 



