200 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Appended are a few points _ — to call for special 
soe a in the species of Asclepiadee 
Asclepias stellifera Schlecht. idaluientenss revolutus Decaisne) 
(704).—The first species collected. Flowers mostly dull-purple, but 
sometimes of a pale flesh-colour. Very plentiful. Frequently has 
four flowers to ee umbel. The follicles "held erect, and the stalk 
usually spirally coiled. 
A. aurea Schlecht, (708) appears a ae later than the pre- 
ceding, has usually only four flowers to the umbel. 
: roe cody coe (862).—The Dowels large, nearly an 
inch in diameter, of dull whitish colour; the euculli with a broad 
purple ealdina: oatele Anther-valves conspicuous and projecting 
strongly below. Pollinia very large, rudely ovoid. Lips of the 
anther-slits smooth externally, but within are set with a row of 
small upturn ed teeth. Beetles and even bees are often held 
xt 
some cases were still living, but the daingonity.-w were de a: he spider, 
whose dull whitish colour exactly matches that of the flower, often . 
lurks within it. 
Schizoglossum cee ogni (863). Pa pollinia wie very 
large as compared with the size of the flow In an example 
examined a pollinium ent found held j in the ‘ithoer: clips, the bulk 
of it projected eiialae. The pollinium is not much flattened ; at its 
; : re 
valves in v e Hower-bud of this species the tips of the 
green petals turned downwards over the stylar head (which, 
however, they do not touch), go as to a well-marked dimple 
waste places. The thin everted bilge of adjoining cuculli — 
slits, which directly overlie the slits formed by the anther-valve 
prcseer fandii 8. Moore * (856).—The corolla is shetiiy 
mis quam folia brevioribus pilosiuseulis, bracteis setaceis pilosis quam 
Petal, flores excedentes, multo brevioribus, calycis lobis coro 3 tubum ex- 
ilis stri, appressis preeditis, 
aaeitargi sueiinie m carnosule urceolato-campanulate ea rhe s # vi ix ndnaque 
um lobatee lobis erectis deltoideis ve! vel deltoideo-oblongis obtusis marginibus 
denon, corn sani yn — if bx aaa gt Sag nts te 
‘po. a ormi-sub caudiculis 
brevibus fultis, glandula anguste ob 2 Late ee 
