16 XCT. ASCLEPIADEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Genianthus. 



1. G. laurifolius, Hook. f. ; leaves glabrous broadly elliptic obtusely 

 acuminate, base acute, petiole slender, cymes rusty-tomentose much branched 

 many-fld., coronal scales obtuse hardly overtopping the anther-cells. Toxo- 

 carpus laurifolius, Wight Contrib. 61, and Ic. t. 598 ; Wall. Cat. 8241 ; Dene, 

 in DC. Prodr. viii. 506. T. crassifolius, Dcdz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 148. As- 

 clepias laurifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 49. 



SiKKiM HiMAiATA, in hot vallsys, J. D. H. ^ T. T. Chittagsong to Pegu, Rox- 

 burgh, Eiirz, &c. CoNCAN and Canaba, Stocks, &e. 



Stem glabrous, pustular. Leaves 3-4 by 2-3 in. or larger ; nerves slender, 

 spreading; petiole J-IJ in. Cymes very variable, 1-4 in. long and broad; flowers 

 ^-| in. diam., sessile and pedicfilled, of two forms on the same cyme, one small with 

 narrow densely bearded segments, the other much larger with broader oblong nearly 

 glabrous segments. Follicles in Roxburgh's figore S by 1 in., very slender, terete, 

 straight. — Wight & Arnott give Cawnpore, Genl. Hardwieke, as a locality for this, 

 but I suspect some mistake. 



** Stigma elongate, columnar. Cymes subsimple, branches long stout with 

 distant clusters of sessilejlowers. 



2. Ct. crassifolius, Hook. f. ; branches cymes and midrib beneath rusty- 

 tomentose, leaves thickly coriaceous broadly elliptic acute or acuminate, coronal 

 scales overtopping the anther-cells. Toxocarpus crassifolius, Wight Contrib. 

 61 ; WaU. Cat. 8240 ; Dane, in DC. Prodr. viii. 506. 



SiLHET, Wallich. 



Leaves 3-5 by 2-2i in., base rounded or subacute, margins narrowly recurved, 

 nerves very spreading; petiole stout, ^-f in. Cymes simple, or twice or thrice 

 branched, stout, flexuous, as long as the leaves ; flowers J in. diam. Stigma very 

 stout, subclavate. 



3. G-. nXaingrajri, Hook.f. ; branches and cymes rusty-pubescent, leaves 

 glabrous oblanceolate obtusely acuminate, coronal scales overtopping the 

 anther-ceUs. 



SiNGAPOBB, Maingay (Kew Distrib. n. 1106). 



Leaves 2|-3| by IJ-l J in., coriaceous, narrowed into the petiole, midrib beneath 

 glabrous or pubescent, nerves ascending ; petiole J-J in. Cymes, flowers, staminal 

 column and stigma as in <?. crassifolius. 



Tbibe 3. CYNANCKES. 

 17. GXiOSSONEItlA, Dene. 



Diffuse, hoary undershrubs or herbs, branched from the base. Leaves oppo- 

 site. Cymes small 2-6-flowered, sessile or shortly pedimcled ; flowers small 

 Sepals glandular within. Corolla subcampanulate, tube short, lobes overlappiD<^ 

 to the right. Corona near the base of the tube, 5-cleft; lobes larse, broad', 

 hyaline, obtuse acuminate or ligulate. Staminal column short ; anthers tipped 

 by an mflexed membrane ; poUen-masses solitary in each ceU, oblong, not com- 

 pressed, pendulous, waxy. Stigma exserted, fleshy, conical clavafe or peltate. 

 Follicles thick, acuminate, muncate or spinous. /Seeds comose.— Distrib 

 Species 6 ; tropical African, Arabian and Scind. 



G. varians, Benth. in Gm. PI. ii. 748 ; leaves fleshy ovate or rounded 

 obtuse or acute, margm crisped or entire, upper narrower, cymes subsessile, 

 pedicels very short, corolla-lobes rounded Mastostigma varians, Stocks in 

 Hook. Ic. Fl. t. 843 ; Bo»as. Fl. Onent. iv. 61. 



