6 XCT. ASCLEPIADEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gri/ptolepis. 



nerTOS 5-6 pairs arched, cymes axillary and terminal few- or many-flowered. 

 0. Wigttiana, Wall. Cat. 4467. Echites coriacea, Jleyne in Serb. Rottler. 



Dbccan Peninsula ; the Mount, Madras, Heyne, &e. ; Balaghaut Mts., Wight. 



Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., very variable in form, coriaceous, hardly glaucous beneath, 

 base acute ; petiole ^ in. Cymes sparingly branched, usually long-peduncled; branches 

 stout, prominently distantly scarred by the fallen bracts. Sepals large, ovate, acute. 

 Corolla 1 in. diam ; tube ventricose, lobes falcate lanceolate. Coronal scales clavate. 

 Follioles 2-4 in., curved and conniving or straight and divaricate. Seeds very large, 

 I in. long, linear-oblong ; coma a little longer. 



3. C. elegra^ns, Wall. Cat. 1639 ; glabrous, leaves oblong or linear-oblong 

 or -lanceolate apiculate, rounded at both ends or acuminate, glaucous beneath, 

 nerves numerous very faint and spreading, cymes axillary and terminal few- 

 flowered. O. Don Gm. Byst. iv. 82. 0. pauciflora, Wight Ic. t. 49.3. 0. 

 laxiflora, Blume Mus. Bat. i. 147. Aganosma Edithse, Hanee in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. 5. V. 227. Echites pauciflora. Hei-h. Mottl. Nerium pauciflorum, Roxb. 

 Ic. ined. 



Sikkim; Terai, X. D. H. Oeissa, Heyne. Assam, Bengal, Khasia MtS., 

 Chittaqong, Tbnasseeim and Andaman Islds. — Disteib. Java, S. China. 



A slender climber. Leaves 1J-2J by | in., rarely ovate or linear-lanceolate, tip 

 sometimes retuse, base rarely cordate; petiole \-\ in., very slender. Cymes 2-4 in., 

 peduncles long, branches few and pedicels slender. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla 

 yellow, I-I4 in. diam., tube short, lobes lanceolate, tips twisted. Coronal scales 

 clavate. Follicles 5-8 in., slender, nearly straight. Seeds much as in C. Buclianani. 

 — The mss. name of Apooynum orixense, in Bottler's Herbarium, indicates the Oiissa 

 habitat of this plant. Flowed' fragrant. 



3*. CRVFTOSTEGXA, Br. 



Lofty climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowei-s large, in terminal 3-chotomous 

 cymes. Sepals lanceolate. -Corolla funnel-shaped, tube short, throat campanu- 

 late ; lobes broad, overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales at the 

 base of the throat, subulate, entire or 2-cleft. Filaments short ; anthers adnate 

 to the stigma, acute ; pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular, appendages 

 subspathulate. Stigma convex. Follicles thick, divaricate, hard, 3-win^d, 

 furrowed between the wings. Seeds comose. — Dtsikib. Madagascar. 



C. grrandiflora, Br. in Bat. Beg. t. 435 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic obtuse, 

 coronal scales cleft into two filiform segments. Wall. Cat. 1635 ; Wight l^ Am 

 Contrib.S6; Wight Ic. t. 832, mad III. ii. t. 182, t 9; 6rah. Cat. Bomb. PL 

 122; Dalz. Sr Oibs. Bomb. PI. Suppl. 64; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 492; 

 Miquel PI. Bar. Jard. Buitemz. t. 8 ; Beichb. Ic. Exot. t. 132. Nerium grandi- 

 florum, Boxb. Sort. Bmg. 19, and Fl. Ind. ii. 100. 



Cultivated in various parts of India. 



Branches stout. Leaves 3-4 by 1^2 in., coriaceous, glossy above ; nerves many, 

 spreading, arched, faint, base acute; petiole ^ in. Cymes short spreading' 

 peduncle and branches stout, hoary or glabrous ; bracts caducous. Sepals i-4 in' 

 Corolla pale pinkish purple, tube and throat 1 J in. long, limb often 2 in diam lobes 

 acute. Follicles 4r-5 by 1-li in., broadest near the base, straight, woodv. ' Seeds 

 \ m. ilong, oblong-ovate, compressed, narrowed upwards; coma 1^ in., very fine — 

 Supposed to be a native of Africa or Madagascar, from which latter country another 

 species IS described with leaves pubescent beneath and entire coronal scales but this 

 :« only .known from Mauritian garden specimens. Schweinfurth found G. arandiffora 

 cultivated .at Jthartum on the Nile. 



