688 BENGAL PLANTS. [Oxystelma. 
5-angled corolla; lobes ciliate and subvalvate below, tips overlap- — 
ping to the ri right : corona double ; corolline annular at the base of 4 
scales adna 
with sea rg or dilated bases, 2-keeled within. Stamens 5, adna te 
near base of corolla; filaments connate in a short tube; anthe 
with membranous, inflexed tips; pollen-masses solitary in ea¢ 
cell, oblong, compressed, pendulous from slender tips, waxy. 
Carpels 2, distinct ; stigma depressed or subconvex. Fruit of 2. 
thick, oblique or curved, smooth or narrowly 2-winged follicles. 
Seeds comose. 
1240. ss Akasa ESCULENTUM R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 17; E. 
O. 600. <Asclepias rosea F. I. ii. 40. 
N. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A slender, glabrous, climbing perennial herb. Vernac. _ 
Kirni, dudhia lata. 
572. Calotropis R. Br. 
Erect herbs, shrubs, or small trees, glabrous or hoary; leavé 
oppeeie oni sessile or short-petioled. Flowers medium, i 
um rm or subracemose cymes. Sepals connate in a 5-parti' 
calyx, at i at the base within; lobes lanceolate. Petals 5. 
connate in a wide-campanulate corolla; lobes broad, nake' 
sey coronal scales 5, fleshy, laterally compressed, adnate 
and radiating from the large staminal column, dorsally spur: 
Stamens 5, adnate near base of coeha taal filaments connate i 
a tube; anthers with membranous, inflexed tips; pollen-masses 
each cell solitary, flattened, pendulous, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct 
i 
acuminate Sir iia Seeds comose 
Leaves s 
Canatha: oes feat scales of corona truncate, hairy ; large shru 
or sm gigantea 
‘iactialteben erect; scales of corona acute, glabrous or pubescent; 
mall or medium shrubs aeacni 
Leaves petioled; corolla-lobes erect; scales of corona 2- lobed ; oe 
herbs 
1241, Carorroris cicantes R. Br. ; F.B. Liv. 17; E. D.C. _ 
Asclepias tea F. 1. ii. 30. 
Tn all the cancribei common, 
