PerijAoca,] 



60, ASCLEPIADE^. 



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papory, exfoliating in large or small sheets ; inner bark white, with much 

 milky juice. The leafy btems aie tied on poles near threshing floors 

 before the paddy is brought home from the rice stacks in North Kanara, 



3. PERIPLOCA, Linn. 



Erect or twining shrubs. Leaves lanceolate, minute or wanting''. 

 Flowers greenish externally, purplish within^ in lax cymes. Corolla 

 rotate ; lobes bearded within, longer than the tube. Corona of five 

 thick scales, connate into a 10-lobed ring, often produced in a long 

 fihform arista. Filaments short, fiat, free ; anthers with a tuft of 

 hairs at the back. Pollen grains in 4s ; appendages of the corpuscles 

 dilated. Follicles cylindric, smooth. Seeds comose. 



p. aphylla. Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 109. 1. 116 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 12 ; Bran- 

 dis For. Fl. 330. Barrara, rdnsher, barai, Yern. 



South Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan. Dry zone of the 

 Western Punjab and Sind, outer Himalayas ascending to 3500 it. 

 altitude. Fl. Mch.-Apl. A leafless shrub common in Sind, where it is 

 used for fuel and f sdder for goats. The flower buds are eaten as a 

 vegetable. 



4. TOXOCARPUS, W. & A. 



Woody climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in axillary 

 cymes. Corolla-lobes overlapping to the left, tube short. Coronal- 

 scales minute, adaate to the column. Anthers small^ often inap- 

 pendiculate. Pollen-masses minute, waxy. Stigma produced in a 

 long beak. Follicles spreading, smooth. Seeds comose. 



T. Kleinii, Wgt, & Arn. Contrib. 61 ; Fl. Br. 1 . 4. 14 Hills of the 

 Deccan peninsula from the Konkan southwards. Fl. Br. L 



5. GENIANTHUS, Hoot. f. 

 Climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in axillary cymes. 

 Calyx minute. Corolla-lobes valvate, spreading and recurved, villous 

 on the inner face. Corona of five scales, adnate to the column. 

 Pollen-masses minute, waxy. Follicles terete, slender. 



G. laurifolius, Hook. f. Fl. Br. I. 4. 16. Toxocarpiis crassifoUus, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 148. 



Sikkim Himalaya in hot valleys. On the Konkan and North Kanara 

 ghats, in evergreen forests, common in the forests near the Nilkund and 

 Gairsoppah ghdts. Fl. Oct. -Dec. Fr. H. S. 



6. CALOTROPIS, Br. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves broad, subsessile. Flowers medium sized, 

 cymose. Sepals glandular within. Corolla-tube broad, lobes ovate, 

 valvate. Corona of five, compressed, fleshy appendages radiating from 

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