680 BENGAL PLANTS. (Ichnocarpus. 
563. Ichnocarpus R. Br. 
Climbing shrubs with slender branches; leaves opposite ; nerves 
adnate to the corolla-tube at or below the middle; anthers sagit- 
tate, connivent above and adnate to the stigma; cells spurred — 
at the base. Disk free, 5-lobed. Carpels 2, distinct, hirsute, — 
exserted from the disk, each many-ovuled; style short, top — 
obconic; stigma columnar. Frwit of 2 spreading or divaricate 
follicles, slender and subterete or rigid and compressed. Seeds 
narrowed at the apex; coma deciduous; albumen copious; coty- 
ledons long, flat. 
Corolla-tube glabrous, mouth villous frutescens. 
-Corolla-tube pubescent, mouth puberulous ............. emi ceaes. ovatifolius. 
1230. IcHNocarpus FruTEscENs R,. Br.; F. B. I. iii. 669; E. D. 
I.1. Echites frutescens F. I. ii. i. A. 
In all the provinces. 
A climber. ver ernac. Dudhi, dudhi-lata, siama-lata. 
1231. IcHNocARPUS trrotius A. DC.; F. B. I. iii. 670. 
Chi — Chita Nagpur. 
A clim - 
Order LXXXIV. ASCLEPIADACEZ. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually twining. Leaves opposite or occasion- 
ally obsolete, very rarely alternate, entire; stipules 0. owers 
egular, hermaphrodite ; inflorescence usually an axillary, umbel- 
like cyme; bracts small or minute, or obsolete. Sepals 5, connate 
corona of hairs, scales or processes disposed in a ring. Stamens 5, 
at the base of the corolla; filaments in a few genera free, with oF 
without interposed glands, in the majority connate in a generally 
very short, fleshy column, which usually bears an inner corona of 
scales or processes disposed in a simple or compound ring, 20 
