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XCII. ASCLEPIADACEA!. 
[Ceropegia. 
5-lobed, Corolla tubular, base inflated, lobes free or connate at 
tips. Corona double, outer cup-shaped, entire or 5- to io-toothed, 
inner of processes adnate to outer corona at base. Stamen column 
from above base of swollen part of tube; anthers erect, appendages 
o. Pollinia solitary in cell. Follicles 1 or 2 lanceolate or fusi¬ 
form acuminate. Species over 80, Africa, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
(1) C. lucida Wall. PL As. Rar. ii. 33, t. 139; King, l.c. 597. 
Roots glabrous, slender climber. Leaves fleshy membranous, 
ovate or oblong lanceolate acuminate, base acute, 4 to 7 in. long, 
1-5 to 3 in. wide ; petioles -5 to 1-5 in. long. Cymes 1 to 3 together, 
3 in. long; peduncles 1 to 2 in. long, racemes '25 to -5 in. long. 
Corolla i*5 to 2 in. long, curved broad, funnel-shaped below the 
lobes green spotted purple in the tube, lobes lanceolate inflexed 
at the long ciliate brown tips. Hab. Penang, at Penara Bukit 
(Curtis) at 1000 ft. altitude. Rare and local. 
Order XCIIL LOGANIACEyE. 
Shrubs, trees or climbers, or herbs. Leaves opposite, simple; 
stipules present or absent. Flowers bisexual, regular in terminal 
or axillary, simple or panicled cymes. Calyx inferior, imbricately 
4- to 5-lobed or toothed. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped or cam- 
panulate 4- or 5-insert on tube; anthers longitudinally dehiscing. 
Carpels 2, connate; ovules 1 or more in a cell, placentas on septum 
or based on inner angle; style simple; stigma capitate or bifid. 
Fruit capsule or berry, 1- to many-seeded. Species 450, tropical 
or sub-tropical. 
Ovules many in a cell. 
Herbs; capsule didymous. 
Flowers 5-merous ...... 
i. 
Mitreola 
Flowers 4-merous ...... 
2. 
Mitrasacme 
Shrubs or trees. 
Fruit capsular, 2-celled. Shrubs 
3 - 
Buddleia 
Fruit capsular, 2-celled. Trees 
4 . 
Norrisia 
Fruit baccate. 
Shrubs epiphytic or trees; flowers large, fleshy; 
leaves thick fleshy ..... 
5 . 
Fagr-ea 
Trees; leaves thinly coriaceous; flowers mem- 
branous ....... 
6. 
Cyrtophyllum 
Woody climbers; very bitter, with tendrils . 
7 - 
Strychnos 
yule 1 in a cell. Shrubs ..... 
8. 
Gaertnera 
1. MITREOLA, Linn. 
Herb with opposite, membranous leaves and small stipules. 
Cymes di- or tri-chotomous, terminal and axillary. Flowers small, 
white, secund. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla urn-shaped, lobes 
valvate, 5. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-celled; style 2, short, 
at first connate then divergent.. Capsule ovoid laterally compressed, 
