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LXXX. ASCLEPIABEiE. 



13. GLOSSOSTEPHANUS, E. Mev. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-parted ; seo;ments 

 narrow, reflexed. Corona 5-ieaved ; folioles simple, attached 

 to the base of the gynostege, oblong, with narrow, reflexed 

 margins, above flattish, tongue-shaped. Anthers with small, 

 membranous tips. Pollinia ovoid, taper-pointed, pendulous. 

 Stigmas elongate, subpyramidal, emarginate. — DC. Frod. viii. 

 p. 521. 



A glabrous twiner, with narrow-linear or snblnnceolate, petioled leaves. 

 Peduncles extra-axillary, slender, laxly several-flowered, short ; flowers 

 small. — Western districts. 



14. OK"CI]SrEMA, Arn. 



Calyx 5-fid. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-parted, with a short 

 tube. Corona inserted at the summit of the gynostege, of 5 

 membranous, thin, flat folioles. Anthers membrane-tipped. 

 Pollinia compressed, narrow-oblong, pendulous. Stigma co- 

 nical-rostrate, elongate, sub-2-apiculate. Follicles ? — DC. 

 Frod. viii. p. 526. 



A climbing, glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, narrow. Cymes interpe- 

 tiolar, diffuse, clichotomous, few-flowered. — Found by Roxburgh in the last 

 century j locality unknown. 



15. XYSMALOBIUM, K Br. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla widely bell-shaped, deeply 5-lobed 

 or rotate, 5-parted ; limb spreading or reflexed, glabrous or 

 bearded. Corona at the summit of the staminal column, 5- 

 parted, the folioles fleshy, spreading or rarely erect, ovate 

 roundish oblong or strap- shaped, simple within, or rarely 

 with a prominent ridge on the face, very rarely the apex in- 

 flexed. Anthers membrane-tipped. Pollinia compressed, pen- 

 dulous, taper-pointed or truncate. Stigma pointless. Follicles 

 Yentricose, bearing soft shreds, the petiole tmsted. — DC. Frod. 

 \\n.p. 519 ; Thes. Cap. t. 112. 



Erect herbs, resembling Gomphocarpi in habit, and only distinguishable 

 by the corona. Flowers large or small, in interpetiolar or terminal, pedun- 

 cled or sessile umbels. — 12 or 14 species, all Eastern. 



IG. PACHYCARPUS, E. Mey. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla widely bell-shaped, spreading, more 

 or less deeply 5-lobed. Corona 5-parted ; folioles horizontal, 

 of various shapes, mostly longer than the gynostege, expanded 

 (the margins not indexed), bearing on the face two more or 

 less projecting, longitudinal, subparallel ridges, which are 



