Secamone
(altered from Squamona, the Arabic name of S. aegyptiaca). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A genus comprising about two dozen species of stove, twining or decumbent, much-branched shrubs or sub-shrubs, natives of tropical and South Africa, tropical Asia and Australia, and the Mascarene Islands. Flowers small, often minute; calyx five-parted; corolla tube shortly rotate, deeply five-cleft; coronal scales five, shortly or deeply connate with the staminal tube; cymes loosely bi-or trichotomous, or clustered and few-flowered, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Leaves opposite, coriaceous or membranous, sometimes pellucid-dotted. Three species have been introduced, but they are probably lost to cultivation.