200 ASCLEPIADE#. [ Calotropis, 
CALOTROPIS, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla almost bell-shaped, deeply 5-cleft, the 
tube angular, the angles introrsely saccate. Stami of 5 
lobes, the lobes linear-oblong, almost compressed and keel-shaped, 
vertically adnate to the gynostegium, but free below and recurved 
or involute. Anthers terminated by a rather broad membrane. 
Pollen cultriform, compressed. Stigma 5-gonous, depressed and 
minutely apiculate. Follicles ventricose, smooth.—Erect shrubs or 
undershrubs, the juice milky. Flowers rather conspicuous, in axillary 
umbel-like racemes. 
Flowers about an inch or more in diameter ; staminal crown as long 
bes 
as the corolla-lobe eats ‘ . . : : - C. gigantea. 
Flowers } to nearly smaller; staminal crown much shorter than 
the corolla-lobes . ° : . : : . P . C. procera. 
blunt prolongation doubly shorter than the ovoid gynostegium ; 
follicles singly, irregularly ovoid-oblong, inflated, about 14 to 2 m. 
ong, while young floccose-tomentose, soon turning glabrous. 
Has.—Frequent in agrarian lands, especially fallow fields, and along river 
banks of Prome and Pegu; Upper Tenasserim ; also cultivated for m 
purposes.—Fl, H.S.—l.—SS.=—= oo All. 
€ wood is said to give superior charcoal for gunpo 
Remarxs.—Yields the mudar-root. The fibre is strong and used in rope 
making. Th P wader. 
