18 xcv. ASCLEPIADE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Galotropis. 



Throughout INDIA, ascending to 3000 ft. in the Himalaya from the Punjab to 

 Assam, Ceylon and Singapore. DISTJSIB. Malay Islands, S. China. 



Trunk stout, bark pale, shoots woolly. Leaves 4-8 by 1-3 in., cuneate-obovatp, 

 base cordate, axils bearded, smooth above, cottony beneath, Umbels peduncled, 

 simple or compound ; bracts oblong. Corolla ^-2 in. diam., pale purple ; segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, revolute and twisted in age. Follicles recurved, 3-4 in. Seeds \ in., 

 broadly ovate. 



2. C. procera, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kcw. Ed. 2, ii. 78 ; shrubby, leaves 

 sessile young and umbels cottony old glabrous, corolla-lobes erect, , coronal- 

 scales acute glabrous or pubescent. Hamilt. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 246 ; 

 Wight Contrib. 53, and Ic. t. 1278 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 149 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 33] ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 57 ; Bentl. $ Trim. Med. PL t. 176 ; Dene, in 

 DC: Prodr. viii. 585. C. Hamilton!, Wall Cat. 8215 ; Wight 1. c. C. Wallichii, 

 Wight I.e. 53; Wall. Cat. 8216. C. heterophylla, Watt. Cat. 8217; Wight I.e. 

 54. Asclepias procera, Bot. Reg. t. 1792. 



\VESTERN and CENTRAL INDIA, ascending to 3500 ft. from Scind and the Punjab to 

 Behar and Bombay. DISTRIB. Ava, Persia, trop. Africa. 



A shrub 6-15 ft. Leaves as in A. gigantea, but more oblong and acute, sometimes 

 8-9 by 4 in. Umbels long-peduncled, cottony. Follicles 4-5 in., recurved. Seeds 

 5 in., ovoid. 



3. C. Acia, Hamilt. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 247 ; herbaceous, leaves 

 peiioled obovate oblanceolate or oblong glabrous, corolla-lobes erect, coronal- 

 scales 2-lobed. C. herbacea, Wight Contrib. 54, and Ic. t. 492; Wall. Cat. 

 8218; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 536. Asclepias herbacea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 21, and FL Ind. ii. 50. 



N. BENGAL and SIKKIM TERAI ; from Tirhoot to Mymensing, ascending the 

 Himalaya to 3000 ft. 



Stem erect. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., very thick, narrowed into the petiole ; nerves 

 few, stout ; petiole -1 in. Flowers as in C. procera. 



19.* ASCLEPIAS, Linn. 



Perenjfial erect herbs. Leaves opposite, alternate or whorled. Cymes um- 

 belliform ; flowers medium-sized or small. Sepals glandular within. Corolla 

 rotate, lobes often reflexed, naked, valvate. Coronal-scales 5, erect, aduate to 

 the column, spoon-shaped. Anther-tips membranous, inflexed ; pollen-masses 

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

 Follicles turgid, beaked, smooth. Seeds comose. DISTRIB. Species 60; all 

 American, except 2 African and the following cosmopolitan one. 



A. curassavica, Linn. ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 566; perennial, 

 leaves opposite lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acute narrowed into a short 

 petiole glabrous, umbels many-fld. shortly peduncled, corolla orange-red, lobes 

 reflexed, column stipitate. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 Sujipl. 54 ; Gibs. Cat. Bomb. PL 120 ; Bot. Reg. t. 81. 



Bengal and various parts of India, a weed introduced from the West Indies 

 throughout the tropics. 



20. FENTABOTHRA, Hook. f. Gen. Nov. 



A dwarf erect glabrous herb. Leaves opposite, linear. Flowers in axillary 

 unibellifonn short-peduncled cymes. Sepals oblong, minutely glandular within. 

 Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobed j lobes oblong-ovate, overlapping to the 



