8 xcv. ASCLEPIADEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Finlaysonia. 



From the S UNDERSTANDS to TENASSERIM and MALACCA ; Wallick, &c. 



Branches stout. Leaves 3-4 by 1^-2| in., obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse 

 or apiculate, thickly coriaceous, reticulate beneath, base acute ; nerves very numerous, 

 horizontal, very slender; petiole ^-1 in. Cymes 2-3 in. long; peduncle and branches 

 very thick; bracts short, persistent; pedicels short, thick. Corolla ^ in. diam., lobes 

 bearded -within. Follicles 3 by. 2 in., distantly ribbed between the -wings, pericarp 

 thin. Seeds J in. long, flat, obovate-oblong, hairs browjj. Flowers foetid (Voigt). 



7. ATHEROSTEMON, Slums. 



A very slender glabrous twining shrub. Leaves opposite. Floivers in axil- 

 lary and terminal slender peduncled dichotomous cymes. Calyx minute, tube 

 turbinate, jeglandular within. Corolla rotate ; }CJ^R long, slender, overlapping 

 to the right, straight and forming an oblong-cylindric hud. Coronal processes 

 5, filiform, at "back of the bases of the,filamen^MBw2e??s at the base of the 

 corolla ; filaments very short, distinct, withoii^^roerposed glands or teeth ; 

 anthers conniving over and adnate to the stigma, tips membranous, acute ; 

 pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular ; appendages of the corpuscles 

 dilated. Stigma rounded. Fruit unknown. 



A. javensis, Blume Mus. Sot. i. 126, t, 23. 



TENASSERIM ; banks of the Gryna, Moulmein, Lobb. DISTRIB. Javf 

 Leaves 2-3 by f-lf in., oblong-elliptic or linear-oblong, ^^^^^ 



beneath, base obtuse or rounded ; nerves 6-10 pairs, very slender, ari(HpF petiole 

 slender, ^-^ in. Cymes much longer than the leaves ; peduncle long and slender, 

 branches filiform; bracts minute; flowers very few, distant ;. pedicels capillary, tip 

 turbinate. Calyx-lobes small, rounded, membranous, with sometimes a very obscure 

 scale in the sinus. Corolla-lobes long, linear, obtuse, f in. long, erect and recurved. 

 Stamens very minute. 



8. ATHEROLEFIS, Hook. f. Nov. Gen. 







A pubescent slender climber. Leaves opposite, very narrow, membranous. 

 Flowers very small, in very short few-flowered axillary pubescent cymes. Calyx 

 | -superior, tube turbinate ; lobes short, eglandular within. Corolla rotate ; 

 lobes triangular, overlapping to the right. Coronal scales 5, subulate, at the 

 back of the stamens. Stamens at the base of the corolla ; filaments very short, 

 distinct, with interposed rounded glands ; anthers oblong, conniving over and 

 adherent to the stigma, tips obtuse, connate ; pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, 

 granular; appendages of the corpuscles dilated. Ovary half sunk in the 

 calyx-tube and adherent to it ; stigma small, tip obtuse. Fruit unknown. 



A. Wallichii, Hook. f. Atherandra Wallichii, Senth. in Gen. Plant, ii. 

 744. Hemidesmus Wallichii, Wight $ Arn. Contrib.QS; Wall. Cat. 8245; 

 Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 495. 



PEGU, at Prome, Wallich ; Kangoon, McClelland. 



Branches glabrous below. Leaves 3-7 by \-l^ in., narrow, oblong or linear- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, puberuloue above, softly pubescent beneath ; base 

 acute; nerves rather distant, spreading, slightly arched, very slender ; petiole in. 

 Cymes shorter than the petioles ; bracts minute ; pedicels very short, top turbinate. 

 Corolla ~Q in. diam., shortly conic in bud, lobes glabrous within. Filament's alternat- 

 ing with obscure low glands. The habit, foliage, inflorescence, eglandular calyx, 

 obtuse anthers and short stigma well distinguish this from Atherandra. 



