Glossonema.] xcv. ASCLEPiADEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 17 



SciND, Vicary, Frere, Stocks. — DtaiRiB. Beluchistan, Persia. 



Annxial ? Branches 4-6 in., stout, erect or decumbent. Leaves 1-2 in., often ss 

 broad, base acute, nerves obscure; petiole f-1 in. Flowers yello-wiah, ^ in. diam. 

 Follicles 2-3 in., oToid, turgid, beaked, fleshy ; spines very stout, soft, scattered. 

 ■Seeds ^ in., broadly ovate, flattened, pale yellow-red, margins thin. 



18. OXVSTEE.IUCA, Br. 



Twining glatrous heihs or undershrubs. Leaves narrow, opiposite. Flowei-s 

 large, in loose racemose or umbellifortn cymes or solitary, pedicels filiform. 

 Calyx small, 6-oo -glandular within. Corolla broadly urceolate, or campanulate 

 or rotate ; lobes ciliate and subvalvate below, tips overla»pping to the right. 

 Corona double, corolline annular, at the base of the corolla, papillose within, 

 margin membranous, truncate ; staminal of 5 scales adnate to the bases of the 

 stamens with cordate or dilated bases, 2-keeled within. Filaments short, 

 connate; anther-tips membranous, inflexed; poUen-masses one in each cell, 

 oblong, compressed, pendulous, waxy. Stigma depressed, or snbconvex. Follicles 

 thick, oblique or curved, smooth or narrowly 2-winged. Seeds comose. — 

 DisiRTB. Species 4 ; tropical Asia and Africa. 



0. esculentum, Br. ; leaves lanceolate linear-lanceolate or linear finely 

 acuminate, base acute rounded or cordate, corolla 1 in. diam. ciliate, follicles 

 oblong lanceolate or ovoid. Wight Contrih. 54 ; &rah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 121 ; 

 Bah. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 150; Hooh. Comp. Bot. Mag. t. 22; Griff. Notul. iv. 

 61, and le. PI. Asiat. t. 399, 400 ; Wall. Cat. 8219 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 48-3 ; Bene, in BC. Prodr, viii. 542. O. Wallichii, Wight Contrib. I. c. ; Bene. 

 I. c. ; Wall. Cat. 8220. Periploca esculenta, Zinn. f. Suppl. 168 ; Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. i. 13, t. 11. Asclepias rosea, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 40, and 

 As. Research, iv. 268 [Boogdhdika). 



Throughout the plains and lo-wer hills of India; from the Punjab to Ceylon, 

 Assam, Pegu and Tenasserim. — Diste)b. Ava, Java. 



A deciduous-leaved very slender climbing perennial. Leaves 4-6 by ^-1 in., 

 membranous, nerves many, uniting far within the margin ; petiole ^ in., very slender. 

 Cymes few-fld., peduncles and pedicels capillary. Flowers white and rose-coloured 

 with purple veins. Follicles 2-3 in., rather membranous^ Seeds very numerous, 

 J in., broadly ovate, flat. — 0. Wallichii of Wight diflfers only in the more oblong 

 follicles rounded at the end. 



19. CAIiOTXtOFXS, Br. 



Erect, glabrous or hoary shrubs or small trees. iea»es« opposite, broad, sub- 

 sessile. Flowers medium-sized in umbelliform or subracemose cymes. Sepals 

 glandular within. Corolla broadly campanulate ; lobes broad, naked, valvate. 

 Voronal-scales 5, fleshy, laterally compressed, radioing from the large staminal 

 column, dorsally spurred. Anther-tips membranous,, inflexed; pollen-masses 

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

 -lobed. Follicles short, thick. See^s comose. — Disteib. Species 3 ; tropical 

 Asia and Africa. 



1. C. g'l^antea, Br. in Hort. Kew. Ed. % ii. 78 ; sub-arboreous, leaves 

 sessile beneath and umbels cottony, corolla-lobes spreading, coronal-scales 

 truncate hairy. Hamilt. in Trans. lArm. Soc. xiv. 245 ; Wight Contrib. 53, and 

 Bl. t 155, 166 A.; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 149; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 120; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 331 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 68, and le. PI. Asiat. t. 397, 398 ; Bene. 

 inBC. Prodr. viii. 535; Bot. Beg. t. 58. Asclepias gigan tea, WiM.; Roxb. 

 Hart. Ben^. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 30. 



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