reriploca.] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (huown). -j:,"; 



or subtruncate at the apex. Follicles smooth. Seeds crowned witii 

 a tuft of hairs. — Twining or erect shrubs, rarely leafless Leaves 

 opposite. Flowers of moderate size, or small, in lax axillai v or terminal 

 cymes. 



Species several ; the genus extends into Xortli Africa, tlic C.-inarie^, S. Kiiroj.e 

 and tlirougli the Orient into India :ind China. 



Leptadenia visciformis, V^atke in Oeiterr. liot. Zeitsdir. IJiJfJ, l-iO, may helouu' 

 to this genus. 



Corolla-lobes bearded within. 



Branches rather stmt, stiff and usually leafless . 1. 1\ aplujUa. 



Hranches slender ; leaves long, linear . . . '1. P. linearifoUa. 



Corolhi-lobes glabrous within, but with a velvety 



sheen ; leaves elliptic-oblong . , . . 3. P. nifjrescens. 



1. Periploca aphylla, JJecne. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. loO t. lie. 

 A branching glabrous or puberalous shrub, with stiff moderately stout 

 leafless branches, or sometimes the young shoots bear small oblong or 

 Imear-oblong obtuse or acute leaves :^-G lin. long, |-1 ^ lin. broad, on 

 very short petioles. Cymes terminal on very short lateral branches, 

 5-20-flowered ; bracts minute, obtuse; pedicels H-o lin. long, gla- 

 brous or puberulous. Sepals J-1 lin. long, g^-J lin. broad, ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or puberulous. Corolla rotate. r.-7 lin. 

 in diam. ; lobes 2.\-;> lin. long, 1.^-1 J lin. broad, oblong-ovate, obtuse 

 or subacute, glabrous on the back, bordered on the inner face near 

 the margin with long white hairs, glabrous on the central part, with a 

 slightly raised lanceolate boss down the middle, formed of minute, 

 ■densely crowded papillae. Coronal-lobes -U^ lin. long ; basal part trans- 

 versely oblong, truncate, with two wing-like keels down the inner face, 

 one near each margin ; apical jjart filiform, erect, tortuous. Stamens 

 hairy on the back of the deltoid-ovate anthers ; filaments glabrous. 

 Follicles widely divergent, 3-4 in. long, \ in. thick, terete, acuminate, 

 glabrous or puberulous. — DC. Prod. viii. 409 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. .'jO ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 12 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. iv. ii. 210. 



Wile Z.and. Nubia : near the coast, about 21° N. latitude, Bevf ! Sotinbn 

 Mountains, Schiceinfurth, 238 ! 340 ! 



Also in Egypt, and extending through Arabia and Persia into the jdains uf North- 

 west ladia. 



2. P. linearifoliay Dill, ti- Jiich. in Ann. Sc. Xat. sCr. 2. xiv 

 203. A glabrous climber. Leaves li-oj in. long, 1-3 lin. broad, 

 linear, acute. Cymes lax, several flowered, pedunculate, axillary and 

 terminal, often forming large compound cymes at the ends of thf 

 branches; bracts h lin. long, ovate. Sepals 'I lin. long, ovate, obtuse. 

 Corolla rotate, T) fin. in diam.; lobes 2 lin. long, J lin. broad, with 

 revolute margins, bearded within except along the middle. Coronal- 

 lobes subulate-filiform, minutely hairy, shortly, dilated at the ba^e 

 and two-keeled within, with the edges of the dilated part adnate to 

 the corolla. Stamens hairy on the back of the filaments and anthers. 



