Hemidesmus.1 xcv, asclemade^. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 



each cell, granular ; appendages of the corpuscles dilated or hooded. Stigma 

 5-angled, crown flat. Follicles long, slender, divaricate, terete, smooth.. Seeds' 

 comose. 



K. indlcus, Br. in Mem. Wem. Soc. 1.. 67 ; leaves Jrom. broadly ohovate 

 to ohlong elliptic linear or linear-JanceolaAe obtuse or apiculate. WdL Cat. 

 8243 ; Wight Contrib. 63 ; Wight Ic. t. 694 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 55 ; Balz.. 

 Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147 ; Orah.. Cat. Bomb. PI. 122 ; Dene, in BC. Prodr. viii. 

 494; Benth. ^ Trim. Med. PI. t. 174. H. Wallichii, Mi^el PI. Hohmach. 

 No. 369. Periploca indica, WiUd. Sp. PI. i. 2251. Asclepias pseudo-sarsa, 

 Moxh. Sort. Beng. 20, and FLInd. ii. 39, excl. tyn. — Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 83, 

 f. 1 ; Rheede Hart. Mai. x. t..34. 



NoBTHERN Inhia;. from Banda to Oudh and Sikkim, and southwards to Travancore 

 and Cetlon. 



Leaves most variable in form, length, and breadth, the shorter and broader 1-1 J by 

 l-I^ in., the longer 4 by | in., the broadest sometimes retnse at the tip, the narrowest 

 finely acuminate, those on the young shoots often white along the midrib ; petiole 

 ^ in. Pedicels clothed with ovate acute imbricating bracts. Corolla ^ in. diam., 

 green without, purple within. Follicles 4-5 in. Seeds j in., ovate-oblong, flattened, 

 black ; coma 1 in. 



Vab. pubescens; stem and leaves- beneath . and sometimes' above pubescent. H. 

 pubeseens, Wight J/- Am. Contrib. 63; Wight Ic. t. 1320; Wall. Cat. 8244; Bene, in 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 495.^ — Behar on the Soane river, J. B. H.; Deocan Peninsula, 

 Wight, &c. 



3. CRVFTOX.EPXS,J?n 



Twining glabrous shrubs. Xeaws opposite: Floioers in very lax slenders 

 dichotomous few-flowered peduncled terminal or axillary cymes. Calyx with 

 5 scales within. Cwolla-tube short, cylindric or hell-shaped ;. lobes linear,, 

 overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales 6, about or above the- 

 middle of the tube, linear or clavate, conniving. Filaments subconnate by 

 their hroad bases; anthers short, adhering by their basfr to the stigma, tips 

 conniving, acuminate ; poMen^masses cohering in pairs in each cell, graniilar,. 

 appendages oblong. Stigma broadly conic. Follicles divaricate, terete, smooth. 

 Seeds comose. — Distbib. Species 14 ; Tropical Asiatic and African. 



1. C. Bucbananl, Roem: 8r Sch. Syst. iv. 409 ; glabrous, leaves oblong 

 or elliptic, glaucous beneath, nerves very many slender nearly horizontal,;cymes 

 axillary many-flowered. Wight Ic. t. 494, and Bl. t. 182, f. 8 ; Falc. in ■ 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 53, t. 5 ; Brandos. For. Fl. 330 ; Bah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 148. C. reticulata, Wall. Cat. 1640; Royle III. 270. N«rium reticulatum, 

 Roxb. Sort. Beng. 19, and Fl. Ind. ii. 8. Echites reticulata, Roth Nov. Sp. 

 134. E. cuspidata, Heyne in Herb. RottL — Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 11. 



Throughout India, from Western Kashmir to Assam and Bibma, ascending the 

 Himalaya to 4000 ft. ; and southwards to Teavancore and Geylon. 



Leaves 3-6 by 1-2J in., coriaceous, shining above, sometimes obovate, apiculate or ■ 

 acuminate, base acute ; petiole \ in. Cynms very shortly peduncled, paniculate ; 

 branches short, divaricate. Sepals short, acute. Corolla- yellow, J in. diam. ; tube 

 very short, lobes lanceolate. Coronal scales clavate. Follioles 2.-4 in., straight, jigid, 

 gradually narrowed from about the middle where they are ^-J in. diamj. Seeds-^ in. 

 long, oblong-ovate, contracted below the tip, compressed ; coma 1 in. 



2. C. grrandiflora, Wight Ic. t. 831, and III. ii. 169, t. ]55&,.f. E;. 

 glabrous, leaves obovate oblong or elliptic obtuse or mucronate, pale beneath, 



