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diately above the carpels and thickened with the anther-tube int 
“eal usually opposite leaves. Stipules none or obsolete, 
axilly n small, in racemes or cymes often reduced to umbels 
i ry or lateral from between the opposite petioles. Bracts small: 
: ec very minute. : 
.atge order the members of which usually abound in acrj 
oo milk which often proves more or ions poisonous, “The 
Tylop Senerally acrid, whence some of them act as emetics. as 
ora asthmatica and Secamone emetica ; others are diaphoretie 
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Sse an, Marsdenia tinctoria. Others are remarkable for their 
ae re, like Marsdenia tenacissima, Orthanthera viminea, the 
— ‘all Se ona {Calotropis), and a fewothers. None of the 50 species 
oc : Sip ( 
& forester’s point pe gan: Burma are of any special interest from 
bs iota s Karst wed or entirely free ; pollen-masses granu- 
. ody twiners. 
x — without a corona ; anthers terminated by a thick 
ong bearded appendage. Woody climbers .  . Pentanura, 
