Cryptolepis.] — ASCLEPIADER. 199 
middle and furnished with 5 fleshy scales alternating with the 
tamens 5, inserted above 
the base of the tube, the filaments very short; anthers sagittate, 
acuminate, bearded on the back. Pollen-grains solitary, granulate, 
united into 4 masses, attached to the linear-spatulate appendages 
divisible into 2. Stigma 5-gonous. Follicles cylindrical, divari- 
, smooth. Seeds comose.— Woody twiners, glabrous. Flowers 
small, in short axillary cymes. 
C. Buch 
all parts glabrous; leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, acute at the 
ase, on a slender petiole 3-4 lin. long, retuse with a mucro or 
small glabrous cymes in the axils of the leaves; calyx } lin. long, 
Haz.—Rather rare in the open, especially the low, forests of the Tharrawadee 
zone of Prome; also Ava,—Fr. Jan.- eb.—l.—8S.=Dil. 
TOXOCARPUS, Weht. and Ar. 
of the anthers, and each with an appendage inside, Pollen-grains 
20, very small, attached in 4 masses to the processes of the stigma, 
which latter terminates in a long point or beak. Follicles very 
spreading.— Woody climbers, Flowers small, in axillary cymes. 
1. T. laurifolius, Wight.—An evergreen lofty twiner, all parts 
glabrous, the branches corky-tubercled ; leaves elliptical to ellipti- 
cally ovate, rounded or obtuse at the base, on a rather slender 
petiole 3-1 in, long, shortly and abruptly acuminate to apiculate, 
entire, 24-5 in. long, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, shining above ; 
flowers small, pale yellow with a red or orange-red staminal crown, 
on slender, glabrous or nearly glabrous pedicels about a line long, 
forming glabrous or slightly rusty-tomentose almost sessile cymes 
im the axils of the leaves, the bracts and bractlets minute, subu- 
late; sepals oblong, blunt; corolla-lobes a line long, oval-oblong, 
blunt, slightly pubescent inside; follicles slender, horizontally 
“preading, cylindrical, the thickness of a goose-quill, about 5 in, 
long, corky-lentioellate, glabrous. eelle 
Has.—Not unfrequent along choungs in the ical forests of the Pegu 
Yomah,—Fl. as 188, =Si8,, ete. 2% 
