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peduncle slender, about 1-5 in. long; bracts minute, subulate; pedicels 

 slender, -5 in. long ; buds ovoid. Calyx deeply cleft ; lobes ovate, acute, 

 hyaline on the margins, -05 in. long; scales obscure. Corolla cam- 

 panulate; tube very short; lobes erect, oblong, obtuse, "15 in. long; 

 margins usually somewhat reflexed. Corona as long as corolla-lobes, 

 campanulate, irregularly crenately 10- or more lobed with 10 internal 

 longitudinal folds. Staminal-column inserted at the base of the corolla- 

 tube ; anther-wings broad, horny ; cells pocket-like ; appendages ovate- 

 acute ; pollen-masses ellipsoid, attached by short clavate caudicles to 

 the small oblong pollen-carriers. Style-apex 5-angled ; tip acuminate, 

 bifid. Follicles 1 or 2, reddish, lanceolate, long-acuminate, 3 to 5 in. 

 long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad ; pericarp thick, densely clothed with soft 

 reversed-hooked spines '25 to '5 in. long. Seeds orbicular-ovoid, -5 in. 

 long and nearly as broad, wrinkled, broadly winged, deeply dentate- 

 crenate at the lower end ; tip truncate, crowned with a 1 to 1*5 in. long 

 white silky coma ; testa dark brown, shining, rugose on the dorsal face ; 

 cotyledons elliptic, -15 in. long ; radicle cylindric, acute, "075 in. long. 

 Wall. Cat. 8222, 8231; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 24. Gynoctonum 

 corymhosum, Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 528. 



Penang: Wallich. Peeak : on shrubs at 300 to 500 ft., King's 

 Collector 5301; Scortechini. — Distbib. India (Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, 

 Cachar, Nicobar Islands). 



Tribe IV. Maesdenie^. 



Stamens with filaments connate into a tube ; anthers erect or 

 incumbent on the style-apex and adnate to it at their base, with fiat 

 or inflated membranous appendages. Pollen-contents of each anther- 

 cell united into a waxy mass ; pollen-masses opaque, without a pellucid 

 margin, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers by long or short 

 caudicles, erect or ascending or horizontal, never entirely pendulous, 

 sometimes very minute and the caudicles very slender; pollen-carriers 

 hard and horny, with a dorsal suture, usually dark- coloured. 



Corolla-lobes overlapping (sometimes valvate or nearly so in 

 Gongroncniii) : — 

 Corona none .. .. .. .. .. 18. Sarcolobus. 



Corona corolline : — 



Corolla-lobes long ; style-apex included ; herbs . . 19. Pentasacme. 



Corolla-lobes short ; style-apex exserted ; twining shrubs . . 20. Gymnema. 

 Corona staminal, rarely none : — 

 Corolla urceolate or campanulate, sometimes rotate : — 



Corona-processes fleshy, rounded . . . . 21. Gongronema. 



