Hemidesmus.} ASCLEPIADACE 4. 685 
above the middle of the tube, linear or clavate, connivent. Stamens 
_5, adnate below middle of corolla-tube; filaments wide-based, 
somewhat united below, free and narrow above; anthers short, 
adnate to stigma by their bases, their tips acuminate, connivent ; 
pollen-masses in more or less coherent pairs in each cell, granular, 
- appendages of corpuscles stiles Carpels 2, many-ovuled, and 
styles distinct ; stigma wide-conic. Fruit of 2 routnatl, terete, 
smooth follicles. Seeds comose 
Cymes many-flowered, shortly peduncled ; branchlets short, divaricate ; 
sepals jis follicles not exceeding 4 in. in length; flower under an 
inch across Buchanani 
Cymes peewee, long-peduncled ; branchlets longer, slender; sepals 
obtuse ; follicles 5 in. long or longer ; flower an inch or more across 
elegans. 
1233. CryproLePis BucHaNaAnit Roem. & Schult.; F. B. I. iv. 5; 
E. D. CG. 2247. Neriwm reticulatwm F. I. ii. 8. 
In all the provinces. 
A glabrous, twining shrub. Hind. Karanta; Santal. 
Utri du 
1234. pric ELEGANS Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 6. 
Orissa; N. Bengal, Tosaee: Chita 
A fae Hines climber. 
566. Hemidesmus R. Br. 
Twining shrubs; leaves opposite, hoary or pubescent beneath. 
Flowers small, in opposite, Faponein subsessile cymes, 
purple. Sepals 5, somewhat connate below, acuminate, cai 
corolla; lobes thick, valvate; coronal scales 5 on atm corolla- 
throat, alternate with its lobes, short, thick. Sta 8 5; fila- 
ments adnate to base of corolla-tube, faintly connate Bi nS free 
above; anthers with connate, inflexed, membranous tips ; pollen- 
masses cohering in pairs in each cell, granular; appendages of 
of 2 long, slender, divaricate, terete, smooth follicles. se: 
comose. 
Stem and leaves above A spereare seeee dndicus 
Stem and leaves benea ti above pubescent 
‘ indicus 
icus var. pubescens. 
2y 
