Dregea.) ASCLEPIADACE. 697 
1262. PERGULARIA miINoR Andr.; F. B. I. iv. 38; E. D. P. 410. 
Asclepias odoratissima F. I. ii. 46. 
In gardens in all the province 
An almost glabrous, twining Haine tor Beng. Kanja- 
lata. 
586. Dregea E. Mey. 
Glabrous or hoary twining shrubs, rarely suberect; leaves 
opposite, usually ovate or cordate, acuminate. Flowers green, 
in axillary, umbellate cymes. — 5, small, somewhat connate 
at base, glandular or not within, ovate. Pe 5, connate in a 
rotate corolla; lobes broad, anes overlapping to the right: 
corona of 5 hemispheric, fleshy scales, adnate to the staminal 
the anthers. Stamens 5, adnate near base of corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments connate in a short, fleshy column; anthers with short, 
inflexed tips ; pollen-masses in each cell solitary, erect, cylindric- 
oblong, shortly pedicelled, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct; stigma 
conical or dome-shaped. Fruit of 2 thick, hard, winged or ribbed 
follicles. Seeds comose. 
Leaves and branches green, glabrous ; leaves ovate, suborbicular or cor- 
date, acuminate ; climbin: — 
Leaves and lacnsebes ies or mealy :— 
Leaves ovate, suborbicular or cordate, avert: anes 
bilis var. Lacuna. 
Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate ; small, pievsee 
volubilis var. angustifolia. 
1263. DrEGEA VoLUBILIS Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 46. Asclepias 
volubilis F. I. ii 
In most of the pioihane 
A stout, tall climber. “Bind, Nak-chikni; Beng. Tita- 
kunga; Santal. Marang-kongat. 
1263/2. Var. Lacuna; F. B. I. iv. 47. 
Tirhut ; — 
A stout clim 
1263/3. ~~ iat F. B. I. iv. 47. 
N. Be 
tide bichactarih undershrub. 
