12 xcv. ASCLEPiADEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Periploca. 



1. P. aphylla, Dene, in Jaeq. Voy. Bot. 109. t. 116; and in DC. Frodr. 

 Tiii. 499 ; erect, leafless or nearly so, flowers purple, coronal lobes very long 

 filiform glabrous. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 50. Campelepis Timinea, Falc. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 109, in note. 



■Western Panjab, in the plains, Falconer, &c. Scind, Stocis. Disteib. Aff- 

 ghanistan, Persia, Arabia, Nubia. 



A shrub ; branches as thick as a goose-quill or less, smooth or tips pubescent, 

 ieaues, if present, J in., oblong, acute, very thick, nerveless. Cymes often opposite, 

 ^-1 in. long and broad, branched from the base or on short thick peduncles, glabrous ; 

 branches short, thick ; bracts caducous. Sepals broad, rounded-ovate. Corolla ^-^ 

 in. diam., dark purple, glabrous externally, lobes ovate-oblong, densely bearded above 

 the middle within. Follicles J by ^ in., rigid, woody, terete. Seeds J in., narrowly 

 oblong ; coma 1 in. — " Used for cordage ; flowers- fragrant, eaten by natives, taste like 

 raisins " (Stocks). 



2. P. hydaspidis, Falc. in Ann. ^ Mag. of Nat. Hist. Vm.. 449; 

 twining, leafless or nearly so, flowers yellow, coronal lobes subulate hairy. 

 J)cne. in DC. JPi-odr. -viii. 498. 



Western Hisialata; Southern Kashmir and Kishtwar, ascending to 4000 ft., and 

 the adjacent Panjab, Falcener, Thomson, &c. Distrib. Aifghanistan. 



Quite glabrous. Branches tortuous, wiry, sometimes fascicled, as thick as a crow- 

 quill, smooth. Leaves (if present) ^-^ in., linear,, subacute, thick^ nerveless. Cymes 

 \-l in. long and broad, often opposite, very numerous ; peduncle stout, erect, 

 branches divaricate ; bracts- caducous. Sepnis rounded, quite glabrous. C(yroUa,\m. 

 diam. ; lobes oblong, obtuse, pubescent or villous within, glabrous externally. 

 Follicles (old only seen) broader and less woody than in P. aphylla. 



3. P. calophylla, Falc. in Ann. ^ Mag. Sc. Nat, viii. 449 ; twining, 

 quite glabrous, leaves narrowly lanceolate caudate-acuminate, nerves Yery many 

 horizontail, flowers yellow or pinkish, coronal lobes hairy. Brandis For. Fl. 

 330. Dene, in DC. Frodr. viii. 498. Streptocaulon calophyllum, Wight 

 Ccmtrib. 65, and III. t. 182, f. 1 ; Wall. Cat. 8252. 



Temperate and sceteopical Himalaxa, alt. 3-5000 ft. from Kumaon to Sikkim, 

 Khasia Mts. alt. 4000 ft. 



A small shrub, branches slender. Leaves 1^-3 by A-| in., coriaceous, shining on 

 both surfaces, margin imdulate; petiole i in. Cymes numerous, often in opposite 

 axils^ sessile, ^-1 in. long and broad ; branches and pedicels slender ; bracts caducous. 

 Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla A in. diam., lobes ovate-oblong acute. Follicles 

 4-8 by 1 in., quite straight or curved, parallel or divergent, never divaricate, smooth, 

 terete ; pericarp thin but firm. Seeds j-| in. long, linear ; coma 1-1^ in. 



Tkibe 2. SECAKONEX:. 



14. SECAmOlTE, Bi\ 



Climbing or straggling shrubs or \iiindershrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers 

 small or minute, in sessile or shortly peduncled lax axillary 2-8-chotomous 

 cymes. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft; lobes (in Indian species) overlapping to the 

 right. Coronal scales 5, adnate to. the staminal tube, laterally compressed, tips 

 free. Filaments short, connate; anther-tips small, membranous, inflexed; 

 pollen-masses in pairs in each ceU,. small, globose, waxy, corpuscles minute. 

 Stigma beaked, 2-fid, or low and conical. Follicles stout or slender, acuminate, 

 smooth, terete or angled. Distbib, Species about 24, tropical Asia, Australia, 

 and Mascarene Islands. 



