692 BENGAL PLANTS. [Demia. 
1249. Dauia extensa R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 20; E. D. D. 9. 
Asclepias echinata F. I. ii. 44. 
In all the provinces except Chittagong. 
A fetid, tomentose, climbing undershrub. Hind. 
Sagauni, juttak; Beng. Chagul-bati; Uriya Uttururi. 
579. Sarcostemma R. Br. 
Shrubs with trailing, leafless, jointed stems and pendulous 
branches. Flowers small, on clavate peduncles, in umbellate 
cymes, terminal or along the nodes. Sepals slightly connate 
below in a small 5-fid calyx, glandular or not within; lobes rather 
acute. Petals 5, connate in a rotate corolla; lobes broad, overlap- 
ping to the right: corona usually double; outer cupular mem- 
branous, adnate to base of staminal column, 10-lobed or 10-crenate, 
5 lobes opposite the stamens, with rps fleshy processes joining 
the corona to the backs of the anthers; inner of 5 erect scales, 
Cc 
upwards, sometimes absent. Stam s 5, adnate to base of corolla- 
tube ; filaments connate in a Shaet column ; ‘ene with mem- 
haar 46 inflexed tips ; pollen-masses in each cell solitary, panes 
waxy. Carpels 2, distinct; stigma conic iy 
spindle sae Fruit of 2 stoutish or slender, smooth follicles 
gue sage 
_Saacosro oe ene FE. B. 1. iv. 26; B.D 
82. clepias acida 
ehh Hens Mh ie 
A leafless pie with green, jointed, trailing or pendent 
branches. Vernac. Soma-lata. 
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be 
580. Sarcolobus R. Br. 
Twining, glabrous shrubs; leaves opposite. Flowers small, 
axillary, corymbose cy 
5-partite calyx, minutely ea within ; lobes ovate, obtuse. 
Petals 5, connate in a campanulate or sahtohete corolla ; 
ovate, overlapping to the ae corona 0. Stamens 5, adnate to 
co! -tube; filaments connate in a very short column; anthers 
wide, with membranous, inflexed tips; eaten meee solitary in 
each cell, erect, with long, twisted pedicels, subeom > waxy. 
Carpels 2, distinct; stigma flat above. Fruit of 2 KG fleck 
