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ASCLEPIADACE-53. 
[. Asclepias . 
staminal crown furnished with a falcate horn from the inner face, is 
represented both in the Seychelles and Mauritius by A. curassavica, 
Linn. ; Bot. Beg. t. 81, of the West Indies, which is now widely spread 
in the Old World. It is an erect milky glabrous perennial herb, with 
opposite petioled lanceolate leaves, flowers in terminal umbels on 
slender puberulous pedicels, minute calyx with 5 linear teeth, 
petals much reflexed oblong red, large stalked 'table-shaped staminal 
corona and stigma with the horns projecting over its summit. 
5. GOMPHOCARPUS, E. Br. 
Calyx- tube very short ; teeth 5, linear. Corolla rotate, with a very 
short tube and 5 spreading obtuse oblong teeth. Staminal corona 
composed of 5 obtuse hooded lobes, with the edges furnished with a 
single tooth on each side ; pollen- masses 10, clavate, pendulous. 
Stigma flat-topped, pentagonal. Follicles oblong, acuminate, muricated. 
— Shrubby perennials, with flowers in copious peduncled axillary 
umbels. Distrib. Mainly Cape. Species 80. 
1. G. cornutuSj Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 557. A shrubby erect 
perennial, 4-6 feet high, with virgate puberulous stems. Leaves 
linear, 1-nerved, short-petioled, acuminate, membrauous, 3-5 in. long. 
Flowers in copious distinctly-peduncled axillary umbels with long 
puberulous pedicels. Sepals linear, nearly as long as the petals. 
Corolla yellowish, under ^ in. in diam. Staminal corona of 5 distinct 
obtuse lobes as long as the pentagonal stigma. Follicles ovoid, acumi- 
nate, prickly, 2-3 in. long. G. niveus, Bojer, MSS. 
Mauritius and Seychelles, in waste ground. Also Madagascar and Zambesi- 
land. Probably a mere variety of G. fruticosus, R. Br., widely spread in Africa and 
West Asia. Asclepiade. La Ouatte. 
6. TYLOPHORA, E. Br. 
Calyx minute ; teeth 5, linear or deltoid. Corolla rotate, with 5 
long lanceolate or deltoid lobes. Staminal corona of 5 flat fleshy dis- 
tinct lobes adnate to the gyiiostegium ; pollen-masses 10, erect, clavate 
or subglobose. Stigma obscurely emarginate. Follicles smooth, clavate, 
acuminate. — Slender leafy climbers, with copious small flowers in 
axillary cymes. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species 40. 
Stems glabrous ■ . . 1. T. laevigata. 
Stems densely pubescent 2. T. asthmatica. 
1. T, laevigata. Dene, in DC. Prod. viii. 602. A slender woody 
climber, glabrous in all its parts. Bran chiefs rather angular. Leaves 
cordate-ovate, membranous, 2-3 in. long, subacute or obtuse, with a 
