Demia.} ASCLEPIADACEZ. 691 
tinct; stigma depressed, flat, 2-lobed in centre. Fruit of 2 
turgid, thick, acute, smooth follicles. Seeds comose. 
1247, RapHIsTEMMA PULCHELLUM Wall. 30.8; Edyil9. -Asele- 
pias pulchella F. I. ii. 54 
Chota Nagpur. 
A glabrous twiner. 
577. Pentatropis R. Br. 
Slender, twining herbs or undershrubs; leaves opposite, small, 
Flowers small, purplish, on slender pedicels, in umbellate, axilla ed 
cymes. Sepals connate in a small, 5-partite calyx, hardly glan 
dular within ; lobes acute. Petals 5 5, connate in a rotate corolla ; 
th 
left: corona of 5 5 laterally compressed scales with free tips and 
spurred bases, adnate vertically to the backs of the anthers, with 
Sometimes a small, annular, outer corona. Stamens 5, adnate to 
Corolla-tube ; filaments connate in a short column ; anthers with 
membranous, inflexed tips; pollen-masses in each cell solitary, 
not compressed, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct; stigma almost flat. 
Fruit of 2 thickish, smooth ere Seeds comose. 
1248, Purrivhovis MICROPH : FB. 1 iv. 20. Ss oe 
P. 396. Asclepias microg F, L ii, 35. 
C. Bengal; Sundribun 
A slender, twining hack. 
578. Demia R. Br. 
Twining, pubescent or tomentose undershrubs ; leaves opposite, 
cordate. Flowers greenish-white, on slender pedicels, in sale 
racemose or corymbose cymes. Sepals connate in a 5-partite 
calyx, Cupane within ; ee acute. Petals 5, connate in a 
Solitary in each cell, oblong, subcompressed, pendulous, waxy. 
Carpels 2, distinct ; stigma with depressed or concave sil Fruit 
of 2 thickish, ri rigid, acuminate, setosely echinate follicles. Seeds 
comose, 
