596 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



•05 in. long. Corolla rotate, with a short tube ; lobes thick, ovate- 

 lanceolate, ■! in. long, pubescent, and with a small hairy protuberance 

 on the inner face near the tip. Corona : corolline of 5 fleshy truncate 

 or acute processes at the sinuses, villous on the back and tips ; staminal 

 of a sometimes obscure, annular, undulate, ring below the anthers. 

 Staminal-column adherent below to the corolla-tube ; filaments united, 

 thin ; lower part of anthers thickened, upper part incumbent over the 

 style-apex ; appendages minute ; poUen-masses ovoid, reticulate, with a 

 pellucid apex, attached by moderately long, often elastic, clavate, 

 pellucid caudicles to the small oblong pollen-carriers. Style-apex S-ra^^ed, 

 conical, sometimes bifid. Follicles subwoody, 2-5 to 3-5 in. long, -75 in. 

 broad, lanceolate, with a blunt shortly curved beak, keeled on the ventral 

 surface ; pericarp smooth, pale grey when dry, thick. Seeds narrowly 

 ovate-oblong, acute, infolded, broadly winged, -25 in. long, ending in a 

 1 to 1"5 in. long white silky coma ; testa thick ; cotyledons fleshy ; 

 embiyo small. Wight Ic. t. 350; Wall. Gat. 8197; Dene, in DC. 

 Prodr. VIII. 628 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 503 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 152 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 63 ; Trimen Fl. Geyl. III. 164 ; 

 Gooke Fl. Bomb. II. 172. L. appendiculata, Dene. I. c. ; Miq. I. c. 

 L. imberhis, Wight Gontrib. 48; Wall. Cat. 8198; Dene. I. c. L. hrevipes, 

 Wight Cat. 1536. Cynanchum reticulatum, Eetz. Obs. II. 15. C. asth- 

 maticuni, Herb. Ham. 766. Secamone canescens, Smith in Eees Cycl. 

 Asclepias suherosa, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 38. Gymnema aurantiaca, Wall. 

 MSS. 



Singapore : Lohh 333.— Disteib. Northern Western and Southern 

 India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Lobb"s specimen has ovate-lanceolate leaves, acute corolline corona-processes, and 

 almost no trace of the ring forming the staminal-corona, but otherwise appears to be 

 the same as the Indian plant. 



31. Geeopegia, Linn. 



Perennial herbs, erect or twining. Bootstoch a tuber or a fascicle 

 of thick fleshy roots. Leaves opposite, sometimes minute or 0. 

 Flowers usually moderate-sized or large, of various often singular 

 forms, solitaiy, in pairs or in umbellate or racemose cymes, lateral, 

 rarely terminal. Calyx 5-partite, with 5 glandular scales within. 

 Corolla tubular, usually more or less inflated at the base, straight or 

 curved, 5-lobed ; the lobes free or more or less connate at their tips, 

 valvate in bud. Corona double, arising from the staminal-column ; 

 outer cup-shaped, entire or 5- to 10-toothed, or of 5 bifid lobes more or 

 less adnate to the inner corona-lobes and often appearing to form one 



