Marsdenia.} ASCLEPIADACEA, 695 
5, connate in a funnel-shaped corolla; tube cylindric, rather wider 
at the base; throat more or less dilated; lobes twisted, overlap- 
Ping to the right: corona of 5 scales, adnate to back of anthers, 
usually with free tips, sometimes wholly adnate, occasionally 0. 
Stamens 5, adnate to the very base of the corolla-tube ; filaments 
connate in a short column; anthers erect, with erect or inflexed 
hyaline, membranous tips; pollen-masses solitary in each cell, 
erect, shortly pedicelled, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct ; stigma conic, 
or shortly, obtusely beaked. Fruit of 2 stout, obtuse or acumina 
follicles. Seeds comose. 
57. STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA Thouars. 
In gardens. . 
A large climber, with handsome, white, fragrant flowers; 
native of Madagascar. 
584. Marsdenia BR. Br. 
Climbing, rarely erect undershrubs or shrubs; leaves opposite. 
Flowers small or medium, in simple or branched, umbellate, ter- 
minal or axillary cymes. Sepals connate in a 5-partite calyx, 
usually with glands or scales; lobes usually obtuse. Petals 5, 
fonnate in a campanulate, urceolate, or salver-shaped corolla ; 
throat usually annulate or villous, rarely naked; lobes narrow or 
broad, Overlapping to the right: corona of 5 erect scales, usually 
flattened, subulate, adnate to back of anthers, very rarely 0. 
Stamens 5, adnate near base of corolla-tube ; filaments connate in 
* short column ; anthers with inflexed, membranous tips ; pollen- 
masses solitary in each cell, oblong or ovoid, pedicelled, erect, 
waxy. Carpels 2, distinct ; stigma flat, convex, or beaked, some- 
times much elongated. Fruit of 2 or (by abortion) frequently only 
1, lanceolate or dagger-shaped, acuminate, pubescent or glabrous 
follicles Seeds comose 
Branches, petioles, leaves beneath and cymes velvety or SoeaeT ORS 
Corolla-lobes large, fleshy, pubescent without, glabrous within ; coronal 
Scales subulate, hardly longer than anther-tips; corolla subcampanulate, 
3 in. wide Oe ig sh ee ae tenacissima. 
Branches, petioles, and leaves beneath nearly glabrous; cymes pu 
lous; corolla “1 in. wide; lobes small :— : 
“Corolla cylindric, glabrous externally; tube with deflexed hairs 
within ; cor scales subulate, longer and narrower than the anther- 
tips [p. 696}....... ; tinctoria. 
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