^^0 59. ASCLEPiADE^. [Costnostigma. 



COSMOSTIGMA, Br. 



A twining sTirub. Leaves ovate or cordate. Flowers small, 

 greenish, in axillary, racemose cymes. Corolla rotate. Coronal- 

 scales adnate to the base of the anthers, erect broad, membranous, 

 truncate or 2-fid. Pollen-masses obovoid, waxy, erect, pedicels 

 long, flexuous. Follicles large, linear-oblong. 



C. racemosum, Wight Contrib. 42; Fl. Br. I. 4. 46; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 151. Jati, M Throughout the Konkan and North Kdnara ; 

 often in hedges. Fl. June, Aug. Fr. CS. Stigma pentagonal, exserted. 



DREGEA, E.Meyer. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves ovate or cordate, acuminate. Flowers 

 green in axillary umbelliform cymes. Corolla rotate. Coronal, 

 scales 5, hemisphei'ic, fleshy, adnate to the colnmn, inner angle 

 cuspidate, the tooth incumbent on the anthers. Pollen-masses 

 erect, oblong, shortly pedicelled. Follicles thick, winged or ribbed, 

 often yellow mealy. 



D. volubilis, Benth. Gen. PL 775 ; Fb Br. I. 4. 4G ; Ho]/a viridlflora, 

 Br. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 153. B'>ri, ambri, heravdoH, M. Common 

 in hedges throughout the presidency. Fl. Mch., May. Fr. C. S. 



HETEROSTEMMA, W. & A. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves usually cordate, 3-5-nerved at the base. 

 Flowers small, in umbelled cymes. Corolla rotate, lobes triangular, 

 valvate. Corona of 5 large lobes, spreading from the column and 

 lying flat on the corolla. Pollen- masses minute, broad, sessile, erect. 

 Follicles slender, straight, terete. 



H. Dalzellii, Hook. f. Fb Br. I. 4, 48; H. Wallkhn, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 162. The Konkan; at Vengurla, and Mdlvan, also in the 

 Deecan near Poona. Fl. Aug. -Sept. 



Oiantli-us urceolatus, Benth.; Heter&stemma urceolaium, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 1^.'^>, and O. disciflorus, Hook. f. FL Br. I. 4. 49, are twining 

 nndershrubs of the Konkan ghdts which Dr. Hooker thinks are possibly 

 abnormal forms of Hderostemma. 



HOYA, Br. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves thickly fleshy or coriaceous. Flowers in 

 axillary or terminal umbels. Corolla rotate, waxy, lobes 5, valvate 

 in bud. Coronal-scales 5, stollately spreading. Pollen-masses 

 pedicelled, erect. Follicles usually slender, acuminate. Seeds with 

 a long coma. 



Glabrous. 



Leaves narrow, linear. Corona pink ... ... H.retusa. 



Leaves elliptic, broad. Corolla crcain-eoloured ... H. Wirihtii. 



b'parscly haiiy. Corolla w bite, lubes villous ... ... H. j)Ciidul(t^ 



