76 xcv. ASCLEPIADE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Frerea. 



51. FREREA, Dalz. 



A low fleshy quite glabrous erect shrub, branches terete. Leaves oppo- 

 site, oblong. Flowers large, solitary or in pairs, axillary. Sepals tri- 

 angular-ovate, acute. Corolla rotate, lobes broad, acute, valvate. Corona a 

 low broad, 5-angled ring round the column, with 5 broad short truncate or 

 retuse spreading lobes alternating with 5 long narrow processes opposite the 

 anthers and inflexed over them. Column very short ; anthers retuse, inappen- 

 diculate ; pollen-masses one in each cell, short, erect, one margin pellucid. 

 Stigma flat, included. Follicles terete, smooth. Seeds comose. 



F. indica, Dalz. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 10, t. 3. 



The CONCAN ; hill foot near Hewra, alt. 3000 ft., Dalzdl. 



Branches very short, in. diam., nodose. Leaves sessile, 1 in., sometimes spathu- 

 lately obovoid, obtuse or retuse. Flowers very shortly dicelled. Corolla purple. 

 Corona as in Boucerosia, from which the genus differs in habit. Described from 

 Dalzell's figure and characters. 



52. CARAXiXiUlKA, Br. 



Fleshy, erect, nearly leafless herbs, with very thick subterete or angular 

 stems and branches. Leaves minute and caducous, or 0. Flowers solitary, or 

 in pairs at the upper nodes. Sepals acute. Corolla broadly campanulate ; 

 lobes 5, narrow, valvate. Corona annular, adnate to the column, 5-lobed, lobes 

 2-cuspidate, with a ligulate process at the sinus on the inner face which over- 

 laps the anther. Column very short ; anthers short, retuse, incumbent on or 

 confluent with the stigma, tips inappendiculate : pollen-masses one in each cell, 

 short, erect, one margin pellucid. Stigma flat. Follicles slender, smooth, 

 terete. Seeds comose. DISTRIB. Species 4 ; Western India and Arabia. 



The corona is that of Boucerosia, but the habit and inflorescence are very different, 

 the stem and branches gradually narrowing upwards and becoming very slender. I 

 have had to describe the species for the most part according to drawings in Herb. 

 Kew. 



* Corolla glabrous within. 



l.C. edulis, Benth. Gen. PL 782 ; stem and branches subterete 4-grooved, 

 corolla glabrous, tube inflated, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Boucerosia edulis, 

 Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 205, t. 1. B. ascendens, Wall. Cat. 8146, in 

 part. B. Stocksiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 64. 



The PUNJAB ; at Eawul Pindee, Aitchison ; Mooltan, Edgeworth. SCINDE, Stocks. 

 Erect, 6-18 in. high, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves -| in. long, ovoid-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, fleshy, caducous. Flowers ^ in. diam., purple within. 



2. C. adscendens, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 25 ; stern 4-angled slender 

 terete above, branches glabrous, tube short funnel-shaped, lobes lanceolate 

 acute. Wight Contrib. 33; Watt. Cat. 8146, in part-, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 

 647. Stapelia adscendens, Roxb. Cor. PL i. 28, t. 30. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; in arid places, Wight. 



Stem ascending, 1-2 ft. high ; branches slender above. Flowers $ in. diam., dark 

 purple within. 



* Corolla fringed or hairy within. 



3. C. attenuata, Wight Ic. t. 1268, and 111. t. 155 b, fig. B. ; stem 



