Calotropis.] ASCLEPIADER. 201 
longation about half the length of the gynostegium ; follicles same 
as those of the preceding species. 
__Has.—Frequent in waste places, agrarian lands and river banks all over Ava 
and Prome district.—Fl. H.S.; Fr. C.8.—1.—SS.=All. Aren. CaS. 
MARSDENIA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla almost bell-shaped, rotate or very 
rarely urn-shaped, 5-cleft, the lobes twisted. Staminal crown of 
5 segments adnate to the gynostegium at the base, sometimes with 
free basal auricles or almost peltate, the upper end erect and free, 
shorter or hardly longer than the anthers. Anthers terminating 
ina membrane. Pollen-masses 2 to each anther, oblong or rarely 
obovoid, erect. Stigma (or summit of style) blunt or terminating 
in a cone or in a long beak.— Woody or herbaceous twiners, rarel 
erect. Flowers small, forming irregular cymes or panicles, or more 
usually simple umbel-like racemes between the axils of the petioles, 
Adult parts all glabrous; corolla glabrous, densely bearded at the 
throat ued i eetee ia & Sodeecscte - ML. tinctoria. 
All softer parts more or less tomentose; corolla pubescent, not 
bearded at the throat i wee et, 1 , eaeediaiag 
r.—An evergreen woody twiner, the 
oblong, rounded or cordate at the base, on a slender glabrous petiole 
about an inch long, acuminate, entire, membranous, 4-5 in. long, 
lobes short; lobes of staminal crown subulate, as lone as the 
Synostegium. 
petiolar panicles usually shorter than the leaves; calyx pubescent, 
the lobes oblong, bluntish ; corolla pubescent outside, salver-shaped, 
Steen, the lobes short and yellow, oblong, blunt; lobes of the 
staminal crown rather thick, linear, at the apex truncate, notched or 
almost 2-forked, nearly as long as the gynostegium ; stigma blunt- 
