Glossonema.] xcv. ASCLEPIADE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 17 



SCIND, V-icary. Frere, Stocks. DTSTRIB. Beluchistan, Persia. 



Annual? Branches 4-6 in., stout, erect or decumbent. Leaves 1-2 in., often/ as 

 broad, base acute, nerves obscure; petiole j-1 in. Flowers yellowish, in. dinm. 

 Follicles 2-3 in., ovoid, turgid, beaked, fleshy ; spines very stout, soft, scattered. 

 Seeds in., broadly ovate, flattened, pale yellow-red, margins thin. 



18. OXYSTELMA, Br. 



Twining glabrous herbs or undershrubs. Leaves narrow, opposite. Flowers 

 large, in loose racemose or umbelliform cymes or solitary, pedicels filiform. 

 Calyx small, 5-oo -glandular within. Corolla broadly urceolate, or campanulate 

 or rotate ; lobes ciliate and subvalvate below, tips overlapping to the right. 

 Corona double, corolline annular, at the base of the corolla, papillose within, 

 margin membranous, truncate ; staminal of 6 scales actuate to the bases of the 

 stamens with cordate or dilated bases, 2-keeled within. Filaments short, 

 connate ; anther-tips membranous, inflexed ; pollen-masses one in each cell, 

 oblong, compressed, pendulous, waxy. Stigma depressed, or subconvex. Follicles 

 thick, oblique or curved, smooth or narrowly 2-winged. Seeds comose. 

 DISTKIB. Species 4; tropical Asia and Africa. 



O. esculentum, Br. ; leaves lanceolate linear-lanceolate or linear finely 

 acuminate, base acute rounded or cordate, corolla 1 in. diam. ciliate, follicles 

 oblong lanceolate or ovoid. Wight Contrib. 54; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 121; 

 Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 150; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. t. 22; Griff. Notul. iv, 

 61, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 399, 400 ; Wall. Cat. 8219 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 483 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 542. O. Wallichii, Wight Contrib. I. c. ; Dene. 

 1. c. ; Wall Cat. 8220. Periploca esculenta, Linn. f. Suppl. 168 ; Roxb. Cor. 

 PL i. 13, t. 11. Asclepias rosea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 40, and 

 As. Research, iv. 268 (Doogdhdikd). 



Throughout the plains and lower hills of INDIA; from the Punjab to Ceylon, 

 Assam, Pegu and Tenasserim. DISTEIB. Ava, Java. 



A deciduous-leaved very slender climbing perennial. Leaves 4-6 by ^-1 in., 

 membranous, nerves many, uniting far within the margin ; petiole | in., very slender. 

 Cymes few-fld., peduncles and pedicels capillary. Flowers white and rose-coloured 

 with purple veins. Follicles 23 in., rather membranous. Seeds very numerous, 

 * in., broadly ovate, flat. 0. Wallichii of Wight differs only in the more oblong 

 follicles rounded at the end. 



19. CAX.OTROPZS, Br. 



Erect, glabrous or hoary shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, broad, sub- 

 sessile. Floivers medium-sized in umbelliform or subracemose cymes. *Vy W.? 

 glandular within. Corolla broadly campauulate ; lobes broad, naked, valvate. 

 Coronal-scales 5, fleshy, laterally compressed, radiating from the large staminal 

 column, dorsally spurred. Anther-tips membranous, infl'exed ; poUen-masfles 

 one in each cell, pendulous flattened, waxy. Stigma depressed, 5-anglrd or 

 -lobed. Follicles short, thick. Seeds coinose. DISTRIB. Species 3 ; tropical 

 Asia and Africa. 



1. C. g-ig-antea, Br. in Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, ii. 78; sub-arboreous, leaves 

 sessile beneath and umbels cottony, corolla-lobes spreading, coronal-scales 

 truncate hairy. Hamilt. in Tram. Linn. Soc. xiv. 245 ; Wight Contrib. 53, and 

 III. t. 155, 156 A.; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 149; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 120; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 331 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 68, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 397, 398 ; Dene, 

 in DC. Prodr. viii. 535; Bot. Reg. t. 58. Asclepias gigantea, Wittd. ; Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 20, and FL Ind. ii. 30. 



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