Hemidesmus.~\ xcv. ASCLEPIADE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 



each cell, granular ; appendages of the corpuscles dilated or hooded. Stigma 

 5- angled, crown flat. Follicles long, slender, divaricate, terete, smooth. Seeds 

 comose. 



H. indicus, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 57 ; leaves from broadly obovate 

 to oblong elliptic linear or linear-lanceolate obtuse or apiculate. Wall. Cat. 

 82^3 ; Wight Contrib. G3 : Wight Ic. t. 594 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 55 ; Dalz 

 $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147 ; jkah. Cat. Bomb. PL 122; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 

 494; Benth. $ Trim. Mm. PL t. 174. H. Wallichii, Miquel PL Hohenack. 

 No. 359. Periploca indica, Wittd. Sp. PL i. 2251. Aeclepias pseud o-sar.si, 

 Roxb. Hort. B&ng. 20, and FL Ind.u. 39, excl. syn.Burm. Thes. Zeijl. t. 83, 

 f. 1 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 34. 



NORTHERN INDIA ; from Banda to Oudh and Sikkim, and southwards to Travancore 

 and CEYLON. 



Leaves most variable in f^H^length, and breadth, the shorter and broader l-l by 

 1-H in., the longer 4 by ^ in., the broadest sometimes retuse at the tip, the narrowest 

 finely acuminate, those on the young shoots often white along the midrib ; petiole 

 ^- in. Pedicels clothed with ovate acute imbricating, bracts. Corolla in. diam., 

 green without, purple within. Follicles 4-5 in. Seeds in., ovate-oblong, flattened, 

 black ; coma 1 in. 



VAR. pubetcens ; stem and leaves beneath and sometimes above pubescent. H. 

 pubescens, Wight $ Arn. Contrib. 63; Wight Ic. t. 1320; Wall. Cat. 8244; Dene, in 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 4D5. Behar on the Soane river, J. D. H. ; Deccan Peninsula, 

 Wight, &e. 



3. CRYPTOLEPIS, Br: 



Twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers in very lax slender 

 dichotomous few-flowered peduncled terminal or axillary cymes. Calyx with 

 5 scales within. Corolla-tube short, cylindric or bell-shaped; lobes linear, 

 overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales 5, about or above the 

 middle of the tube, linear or clavate, conniving. Filaments subconnate by 

 their broad bases ;. anthers short, adhering by their base to the stigma, tips 

 ,conniving, acuminate ; pollen-masses cohering in pairs in each cell, granular, 

 appendages oblong. Stigma broadly conic. Follicles divaricate, terete,. smooth. 

 Seeds comose. DISTEJB. Species 14 ; Tropical Asiatic and African. 



1. C. Buchanani, Roem. fy Sch. Syst iv. 409; glabrous, leaves oblong 

 or ellipti 



axillary 



Trans. I 



148. C. reticulata^ Watt. Cat. lQ4Q;Royle III. 270. Nerium. reticulatum, 



Roxb. Hort. Beng* 19, and FL Ind. ii. 8. Echite8 reticulata, Roth Aoy. Sj). 



134. E. cuspidata, Heyne in Herb. Rottl. Rheede Hart. Mai. ix. t. .11. 



Throughout INDIA, from WESTERN KASHMIR to ASSAM and BIRMA, ascending the 

 Himalaya to 4000 ft. ; and southwards to TRAVANCORE and CEYLON. 



Leaves 3-6 by 1-2^ in., coriaceous, shining above, sometimes- obovate, apiculate or 

 acuminate, base acute; petiole \ in. Cymes very shortly peduncled, paniculate; 

 branches short, divaricate. Sepals short, acute. Corolla yellow, in. diam. ; tube 

 very short, lobes lanceolate. Coronal scales clavate. Follicles 2-4 in., straight, rigid, 

 gradually narrowed from about the middle where they are --J in. diam. Seeds ^ in. 

 long, oblong-ovate, contracted below the tip, compressed ; coma 1 in. 



2. C. ^randiflora, Wight Ic. t. 831, and III. ii. 169, t. 1555, f. E; 

 glabrous, leaves obovate oblong or elliptic obtuse or mucronate, pale beneath, 



