18 XCT. ASCLEPiADEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Galotropis. 



Throughout India, ascending to 3000 ft. in the Himalaya from the Punjab to 

 Assam, Ceylon and Singapore. — Disteib. Malay Islands, S. China. 



Trunk stout, bark pale, shoots woolly. Leaves 4-8 by 1-3 in., cuneate-obovate, 

 base cordate, axils bearded, smooth above, cottony beneath. Umbels peduncled, 

 simple or compound ; bracts oblong. Corolla A_2 in. diam., pale purple ; segments 

 ovate-lanceolate, revolute and twisted in age. Follicles recurTod, 3-4 in. Seeds Jin., 

 broadly orate. 



2. C. procera, Br. in Ait. Sort. Kew. Ed. 2, ii. 78 ; shrubby, leaves 

 sessile young and umbels cottony old glabrous, coroUa-lobes erect, coronal- 

 scales acute glabrous or pubescent. Hamilt. in Trans. Linn. Sac. xiv. 246 ; 



Wiffht Contrib. 63, and Ic. t. 1278 ; Dah. %■ Gibs. Somb. Fl. 149 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 331 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 67 ; Bentl. Sf Trim. Med. PI. t. 176 ; Bene, in 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 685. C. Hamiltoni, Wall. Cat. 8216 ; Wight I. c. C. WaDichii, 



Wight I.e. 53; Wall. Cat. 821«. C. heterophylla, Wall. Cat. 8217; Wight I.e. 

 64. Asclepias procera, Bot. Reg. t. 1792. 



■Wbsteen and Centeai India, ascending to 3500 ft. from Scind and the Punjab to 

 Behar and Bombay. — Distkib. Ava, Persia, trop. Africa. 



A shrub 6-15 It. Leaves as in A. gigantea, but more oblong and acute, sometimes 

 8-9 by 4 in. Umbels long-peduncled, cottony. Follicles 4-5 in., recurved. Seeds 

 \ in., ovoid. 



3. C. Acia, Samilt. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 247 ; herbaceous, leaves 

 petioled obovate oblanceolate or oblong glabrous, corolla-lobes erect, ccronal- 

 scales 2-lobed. 0. herbacea, Wight Contrib. 54, and Lc. t. 492; Wall. Cat. 

 8218; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 636. Asclepias herbacea, Itoxb. Sort. Beng. 

 21, and Fl. Ind. ii. 60. 



N. Bengal and Sikkim Teeai; from Tirhoot to Mymensing, ascending the 

 Himalaya to 3000 ft. * 



Stem erect. Leaves 6-8 by4^4 in., very thick, narrowed into the petiole ; nerves 

 few, stout ; petiole \-\ in. — Hwers as in C. procera. 



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 19.* A<SCX.I:PXAS, LAnn. 



Perennial erect herbs. Leaves opposite, alternate or whorled. Cymes um- 

 belliform ; flowers medium-sized or small. Sepals glandular within. Corolla 

 rotate, lobes often reflexed, naked, valvate. Cm-onal-scales 5, erect, adnate to 

 the column, spoon-shaped. Anther-tips membranous, inflexed; pollen-masses 

 one in each cell, pendulous, flattened, waxy. Stigma depressed, 5-angled. 

 Follicles turgid, beaked, smooth. Seeds comose.— Disikib. Species 60; all 

 American, except 2 African and the following cosmopolitan one. 



A. curassavica, Linn.; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 666; perennial, 

 leaves opposite lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acute narrowed into a short 

 petiole glabrous, umbels many-fld. shortly peduncled, corolla orange-red, lobes 

 reflexed, column stipitate. Roxb. Sort. Beng. 20; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb Fl. 

 Suppl. 54 ; Gibs. Cat, Bomb. PL 120 ; Bot. Reg. t. 81. 



Bengal and various parts of India, a weed introduced from the West Indies 

 throughout the tropics. 



20. PENTABOTKRA, Hooh.f. Gen. Nov. 



A dwarf erect gla,brous herb. Leaves opposite, linear. Flow^-s in axillary 

 umbelliform short-peduncled cymes. Sepals oblong, minutely glandular within 

 Corolla campanulate, deeply 6-lobed ; lobes oblong-ovate, overlapping to the 



