Sarcostemma.'] xcv. ASCLEPIADEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 27 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; not uncommon in dry rocky places. BURMA, Wallich. 



Stem as thick as a goose-quill, green ; joints 4-6 in. long. Umbds sessile, 1-1 

 in. diam., many-fld. ; pedicels \ in., puberulous. Sepals small, ovate. Corolla % in. 

 diam., pale greenish-white ; lobes ovate or oblong, obtuse. Corona and column to- 

 gether rounded, very obtuse. Follicles 4-5 by in., thinly coriaceous, tip fine 

 straight. Seeds flattened, - in. long, ovate. 



2. S. Brunonianum, Wight fy Arn. Contrib. 59 ; umbels chiefly 

 lateral, flowers yellow, column very short, inner processes of corona almost 

 concealing the anthers, stigma very shortly conical, follicles as in S. brevistigma. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1282; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 538; Bot. Mag. t. 6002. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, ascending to 4000 ft. in the jtfilgherries. CEYLON. 

 Apparently more slender than S. brevistigma, with .smaller, chiefly lateral, umbels 

 of bright yellow flowers. ' 



3. S. intermedium, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 538; umbels terminal 

 and axillary, flowers white, column ovoid, inner processes of corona oblong 

 subacute, stigma fusiform simple or 2-fid, follicles broad at the base narrowed 

 to the tip thinly coriaceous. S. viminale, Wight fy Arn. Contrib. 59 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1281 ; ?Wall. Cat. 8232, not of Brown. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, in arid jungles. 



The elongate column, narrower dorsal processes of the anthers and longer stigma 

 are the characters of this. The follicles when in pairs spread but do not divaricate 

 as in the following. 



4. S. Stocksii, Hook. f. ; umbels terminal, column very short, inner 

 processes of corona almost concealing the anthers, stigma very shortly conical, 

 follicles short spreading horizontally poinard-shaped nearly cylindric subacute 

 hard thickly coriaceous. S. brachystigma (by error for brevistigma*), Hook. Ic. 

 PL t, 861. 



SCIND, Stocks. 



Apparently a much more robust plant than any of the preceding, with the flowers 

 of S. brevistigma, but widely different follicles, which are 2^-3^ in. long, rigid, almost 

 woody, cylindric but tapering very gradually from the base to the straight stout 

 point; peduncle very short and thick; the seeds are nearly ^ in. long, linear-oblong, 

 thicker than in its congeners. 



TRIBE 4. IKARSDENXZUE. 



28. SARCOZ.OBUS, Br. 



Twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite. Floivers small, crowded in 

 axillary corymbiform cymes. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla sub-campanulate ; 

 lobes 5, ovate, overlapping to the right. Corona 0. Column very short ; 

 anthers broad, tip inflexed; pollen-masses one in each cell, erect, waxy, elongate, 

 with long twisted pedicels. Stigma flat. Follicles thick, fleshy, globose and 

 smooth, or oblong and 2-keeled. Seeds large, coma 0. DISTRIB. Species 2-3 ; 

 Malayan and E. Asiatic. 



1. S. grlobosus, Wall in Asiat. Research, xii. 568, t. 4, and Cat. 4468; 

 leaves 3-4 in. oblong or ovate acuminate or obtuse and apiculate, corolla-lobes 

 pubescent within, fruit large globose. Wight Contrib. 47, and Ic. t. 1273; 

 Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 625. S. carinatus, Griff. Notul. iv. 53, and in Ic. 

 PL Asiat. t. 410 (not of Wall.). 



SUNDERBUNDS and eastwards to MEBGUI, MALACCA and the NICOBAR ISLANDS. 



