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17. ANODENDRON, A. DC. 



Loffcy climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers small in corymbose 

 panicles or cymes. Calyx 5-cleft, eglandular. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 mouth contracted, lobes narrow, twisted to the left. Stamens with 

 connate, sagittate anthers, cells shortly spurred at the base. Disk 

 cupular, obscurely 5-crenate. Ovaries 2, many-ovuled. Style short, 

 top cupular ; stigmas thick connate. Follicles divaricate, woody. 

 Seeds with a crown of long silky hairs. 



A. paniculatum, A. DO. Prod. VIII. 444 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 668 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147. Lamtani, Vern. 



From Silhet to Martaban, "Western Peninsula from the Konkan south- 

 wards to Ceylon. Common in the evergreen forests of the Konkan and 

 North Kanara. Fl. Jany.-Mch. Fr. May. A very large climber with a 

 thick fluted stem. The dense cymes of small flowers and the beaked seed 

 with the long white umbrella-like coma are characteristic. 



18. ICHNOCARPUS, Br. 



Climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in long terminal and 

 axillary paniculate cymes. Calyx 5-divided, glandular within. 

 Corolla hypocraterif orm j throat contracted or villous ; lobes hairy in- 

 side. Stamens at or below the middle of the tube ^ anthers conniving 

 over the stigma, cells spurred at the base. Disk free, 5-lobed. Carpels 

 2j distinct, many-ovuled, hairy ; style short, stigma columaar. Fruit 

 of 2j very slender terete follicles. Seeds with a slender coma at the 

 hilum. 



I. frutescens, Br. in Hort. Kew Ed. 2. II. 69 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 669 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 327 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147. Krishnasarwa, kantehliouri, 

 M. ; Qorwi balli, K. 



Western Himalaya from Sirmur to Nepal, Bengal, Assam, Western and 

 Southern India to Ceylon. Througjhout the presidency in deciduous 

 forests ; common in North Kanara and the Konkan. Fl. Nov. -Dec. Fr. 

 Mch.-Apl. A twining shrub, yields a good fibre. Brandis (For. Fl. 527) 

 states that the root has been used as a substitute for sarsaparilla. 



Oedee 60. ASCLEPIADEiE. 



Herbs or shrubs, often twining. Leaves opposite, flowers regular, 

 pentamerous. Calyx 5-divided, segments imbricate in bud. Corolla- 

 tube short, often with a corona of hairs, scales, or processes ; (outer or 

 corolline corona). Stamens at the base of the corolla, filaments con- 

 nate or rarely free). The fleshy staminal column usually bears attach- 

 ed to the filaments or back of the anthers a ring or series of scales or 

 processes (inner or staminal corona) ; anthers crowning the column, 

 connate or free, adnate to the stigma by the connective ; tip often 



