Finlaysonia.] ASCLEPIADE. 197 
FIN LAYSONIA, Wall. 
_ Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla rotate, the 5 lobes alternating 
with as many capillary erect bristles hooked at the apex. Filaments 
distinct, inserted between the tubercles at the throat. Anthers 
nude, adhering at the base to the middle of the stigma, terminated 
by a broadly ovate appendage. Pollen-grains 20, collected into 4 
granular masses to each anther. Stigma large, ovate, 5-gonous at 
the base.  Follicles ventricose-ovate, divaricate, hooked-beaked. 
Seeds scarcely comose.—Twining shrubs, with fleshy-coriaceous 
1 F, obovata, Wall.—An evergreen, large, woody twiner, all 
Parts quite glabrous ; leaves opposite, obovate to obovate-oblong, 
thick about a line long pedicels, forming glabrous robust cymes in 
the axils of the leaves and at the end of the branchlets» ¢ 
um : ‘ete: leas y flat, obovate. 
: ong, blunt, n t i 
fringed towards the osu aiae base. ae mia Scr 
Has.—Fp : ; 
~h. Aug-Oct. om oa eae Lower Pegu and Upper Tenasserim, 
ly 
a with 5 short filiform scales alternating with the corolla-lobes. 
«wnents distinct, inserted in the tube ; anthers nude, laterally 
at the apex by means of the appendages. Pollen-masses 
iad solitary, united by fours.. Stigma 5-gonous. Follicles 
 ndrical, very spreading, smooth or longitudinally membranous- 
