Raphistemma
(from raphis, a needle, and stemma, a crown; in allusion to the needle-shaped segments of the corona). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A genus consisting of only two species of stove, twining, glabrous shrubs or sub-shrubs, natives of the East Indies and the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers white, rather large, in umbelliform, long-pedunculate cymes; calyx deeply five-cut or parted; corolla sub-campanulate, with five twisted lobes; corona scales five, adnate at base in a staminal tube. Leaves opposite, membranous. The species introduced requires culture similar to Stephanotis (which see). R. ciliatum (ciliated). A synonym of Daemia extensa. R. pulchellum (pretty). fl., corolla segments ovate, obtuse, erect; stigma rather prominent, umbilicate. July. l. cordate, acuminate, membranous, glabrous on both sides, glanduliferous. East Indies, 1852. Shrub. (F. d. S. 228; L. & P. F. G. 101; P. M. B. xiv. 27.)