232. 



60. ASCLEPIADEJ3. 



[Asclepiadea, 



Coronal-processes adnate to the staminal-<!oluTnn, 

 Corolla lobes valvate. 



Flowers small, purplish. Corolla rotate. Corona 

 of 5, large lobes, spreading from the column. 



Corolla-lobes valvate ... ..15. HeterosteMMa. 



Flowers large, purple. Corolla urceolate. Corona 



cupular, spreading, fleshy, toothed ... ... 16. Oianthtjs, 



Flowers medium-sized^, rotate. Corolla usually 

 white, waxy. Corona large, stellate of 5-scales, 

 usually recurved and enclosing a hollow space. 17. HOYA. 

 Anthers without a membranous inflexed tip. Pollen- 

 masses 1 in each cell (10 in all), in pairs on the 

 corpuscle, erect. Corolla-lobes valvate. 

 Corona double, eorolline, lining the corolla- tube and 

 forming minute processes in the sinus of its lobes, 

 staminal annular. 



Corolla rotate. Flowers white, small, in axillary 



umbels, lobes bearded. Pubescent twiners ... 18. Leptadenia., 

 Flowers large, solitary or in pairs. Corolla rotate, 



lobes broad acute. Erect shrub 19. Feeeea. 



. 1. HEMIDESMUS, Br. 



Twiners. Leaves elliptic-linear. Elowers small, greenish -purple, in ■ 

 axillary, subsessile cymes. Sepals glandular within. Corolla rotate, 

 reddish, lobes thick valvate. Coronal-scales 5, on the corolla-throat, 

 thick. Stamens with the filaments distinct; tips o£ the anthers 

 connate^ inflexed, membranous. Appendages o£ the corpuscles dilated, 

 Follicles slender, divaricate, smooth. Seeds tufted. 



H. indicus, Br. in Mem. Wern. Sos. 1. 5? ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 6 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Pi. 147. Nannari, Yern. ; TTparsal, sariva, anantamul, M. 

 Indian Sarsaparilla. 8ugankha-palada-gidda, 



Northern India from- Banda to Oudh and south to Travancore and 

 Ceylon. Throughout the presidency, common in hedges. Fl. through- 

 out the year. The root is used as a substitute for sarsaparilla in Southern 

 India. 



2. CBYPTOLEPIS, Br. 



Twiners. Leaves pale, glaucous beneath. Corolla-lobes yellow, 

 linear, throat naked, tube short, inflated at the middle, lobes twisted 

 to the left. Corona of five, fieshy scales, included within the tube. 

 Stamens included, sagittate, with a tuft of hairs at the back. Pollen 

 granular ; appendages oblong. Follicles lanceolate, divaricate smooth. 

 Seeds comose. 



C. Buehanani, Eoem. & Sch. Syst. IV. 409 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 5 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 330 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 148. Karanta, Vern. Kurbuntun 

 halU, K. 



Throughout India from Kashmir to Assam and Burma and south- 

 wards to Ceylon. Common in hedges throughout the presidency. Fl. 

 June- Aug. Fr. 0. S. Bracts smalij persistent. Outer bark dark-brown 



