Anodeudron -I 58. APOCYNACEiE. 135 



tlie base. Disc capillar. Obscurely 5-crenate. Ovaries 2, many 

 ovuled. Follicles divaricate, woody. Seeds with a crown of long 

 silky hairs. 



A. paniculatum A. DC. Prod. VIII. 444 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. G68 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147. Lamtani, Vern. Common in the evergreen 

 forests of the Konkau and North Kanara. Fl. Jany., Mch. Fr. May. 



ICHNOCARPUS, Br. 



Climbers. Leaves opposite. Calyx 5-divided. gflandular within 

 Corolla hypocrateriform ; lobes hairy inside. Fruit of 2, very 

 slender terete follicles. Seeds with a slender coma at the hilum. 



I. frutescens, Br. in Hort. Kew ed. 2. II. 69 ; Fl. Br. I. 8. 669 ; 

 Brandis For. FL ?.27 ; Oalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fb 147. Krishnakarwa, 

 kantebkotiri, M. Tbroughout the presidency in deciduous forests ; com- 

 mon in North Kanara and the Konkan. Fl. Nov., Dec. Fr. Mch.. Apl. 



Order 59. ASCLEPIADE^. 



Herbs or shrubs, often twininof. Leaves opposite. Flowers regu- 

 lar, pentamerons. Calyx 5-divided, segments imbricate in bud. 

 Corolla-tube short, often with a corona of hairs, scales, or processes. 

 Stamens at the base of the corolla, filaments connate or rarely free. 

 The fleshy staminal column usually bears attached to the filaments 

 or back of tbe anthers a ring or series of scales or processes, (inner 

 or staminal corona) ; anthers crowning the coluinn, connate or free, 

 adnate to tlie stigma by the connective ; tip often produced into 

 an inflexed membrane ; pollen in 1-2 granular or waxy masses in 

 each cell, masses united in pairs or fours to a gland (the corpuscle) 

 which lies on the stigma. Ovary of two distinct carpels within the 

 staminal column ; styles 2, short, united by the stigma, which is 

 5-angled. Fruit of 2 follicles. Seeds usually winged and plumose ; 

 albumen copious, dense. 



Filaments usually free. Pollen-masses granular, in pairs 



in eacli cell. 

 Corona of 5, free, short, thick scales. 



Corolla lobes valvate Hemidesmtts. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate. ... .. CRyPTOL'=:pi8. 



Coronal -scales connate into a lobed ring Pebiploca. 



Filaments connate. Pol'.en-masses waxy. 

 Anthers with a membranous inflexed tip. 

 PoMen-masses in pairs in each cell, in 4s, on the corpuscle, 

 . ■ pendu' ous. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate ToxoCARPUS. 



Corolla-lobes valvate Gemanthus, 



Pollen-masses solitary in each cell, in pairs on the cor- 

 puscle, pendulous. 



Erect shrubs. Corolla-lobes valvate Calotropis. 



Twining leafy shrubs. Corolla-lobes imbricate. 



Corolla funnel-shaped ••• D^^MIA. 



Corolla rotate. 



