Compilation
Periploca tenuifolia

rootstock a cluster of stout fleshy roots; stem slender, twining, branching, subherbaceous, 1/2– 3/4 lin. thick, glabrous; leaves spreading or reflexed, glabrous; petiole about 1 lin. long; blade 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, linear, with strongly revolute margins, rarely flat, and then about 1 1/2 lin. broad, acute, narrowed into the short petiole at the base, very rarely auricled; cymes subaxillary, 3–7-flowered; peduncle 2–3 lin. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent; bracts 1 1/2–2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent; pedicels 2–3 1/2 lin. long, thinly covered with a somewhat adpressed pubescence; sepals 2 1/2 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous; corolla urceolate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous outside, bright carmine-red; tube 2 1/2 lin. long, inflated at the base, contracted at the mouth, 5-angled, with 5 contiguous elongated tufts of deflexed fulvous hairs just below the mouth inside; lobes 1 lin. long and broad, orbicular-cordate, very obtuse, hairy at the base of the inner half, much overlapping and forming a spiral rosette closing the mouth of the tube; corona-tubercles small, obtuse, ascending, placed at the middle of the corolla-tube, on a level with the base of the tufts of hairs; staminal column 2 lin. long, 5-spurred at the middle; filament part stout, conical; follicles solitary, 2 1/4–3 in. long, 3 1/2–4 lin. thick, fusiform, tapering into a rather long point, minutely bifid at the apex; seeds 2 lin. long, ovate, concave on one face, very convex on the other, tuberculate. null