61. ASCLEPTADACEiE. 
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Brot. i. 280, nec alior.) nor V. minor L. (EB. t. 917) has oc- 
curred. V. rosea L. (BM. t. 248) is not uncommon in gardens. 
The Oleander ( Nerium odorum Sol.) with more or less deep 
rose-p. or w., single (BM. t. 2032) or double (BM. t. 1799) 
fragrant fl., is a common ornament of gardens, to which, how- 
ever, it is quite conhned. 
ftOrder EXT. ASCLEPIADACE7E. 
% 
Cal. and cor. as in Apocynacea, but lobes of cor. in bud val- 
vate rarelv twisted. Stam. 5 inserted at base of cor. and alter- 
nate with its lobes, the til. mostly combined mto a coronated 
tube {gynostegium) enclosing the pistil, rarely free ; anth. 2- 
celled or incompletely 4-celled, the connective mostly produced 
into a membrane at top, connate and applied to the stigma. 
Pollen coherent into mostly clavate attenuato-stipitate or cau- 
date masses as many as the anth. -cells but mostly 10, the 2 or 4 
contiguous pollen-masses of adjacent anthers on escaping from 
their cells becoming adherent or attached in pairs or quaternately 
to a common gland or viscid process between each of the 5 lateral 
angles of the stigma either pendulously, horizontally, or erectly. 
Styles 2, combined at top by the large fleshy dilated pentangular, 
variously coronated or appendaged stigma. Ov. 2 with many 
anatropal ascending or pendulous ovules affixed to the sutural 
ventral placenta. Follicles 2 or by abortion 1. Seeds nume- 
rous mostly comose ; alb. thin ; cot. leafy ; embryo straight ; 
radicle short superior. — Milky acrid poisonous or noxious per. 
herbs or shr. often twining. L. entire, mostly opposite. FI. 
red p. w. or orange-v., very rarely b., extraaxillary, mostly um- 
bellate conspicuous, often fragrant. Stigma deciduous. 
ft Tribe I. AS CLEPIADEAE. 
Fil. connate. Anth. 2-celled. Pollen-masses 10 clavate, 
varicately pendulous in pairs from the longitudinally sulcate 
bipartite stigmatic glands or processes. 
tfl* Arauja. Cal. 5-leaved, lobes ovate leafy persistent en- 
larged after fl. Cor. campanulate, tube broad ventricose or 
swollen at base, limb 5-partite. Stamen- or anther-crown 
included subcoroniform 5-leaved, leaflets cucullate erect 
fleshy adnate downwards to cor. -tube, the margins upwards 
revolute. Anth. with a terminal membranous point. 
Stigma 2-horned at top. Pollen-masses compresso-clavate 
