Brachylepis.] xcv. AsctEPIADEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 7 
4. BRACHYLEPIS, Wight $ Arn. 
A pubescent or tomentose twining shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, 
villous, in terminal or axillary dichotomous cymes, Sepals ovate, glandular 
within. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft; lobes short, overlapping and twisted to the 
tight. Coronal scales 5, broad, membranous, close to the stamens. Anthers 
sessile, cohering in a fleshy ring, tips acute conniving ; pollen-masses in pairs 
m each cell, granular; appendages of the corpuscles orbicular. Stigma 5- 
angled, top flat. Follicles divaricate, acuminate, thick, smooth. 
B. nervosa, Wight $ Arn. Contrib. 64; Wight Ic. t. 1284; Dene. in DC. 
ribs viii. 495 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 56.—Tylophora sp., Miquel in Pl. Hohen. 
n. 1389. 
NirengRRY Mrs., alt. 5-7500 ft., common, Wight, &e. 
Leaves 3-4 by 1-2 in., elliptic or ovate, acuminate, base acute or rounded, 
coriaceous, glabrous and glossy above; nerves 8-10 pairs, spreading and arched ; 
petiole stout, 4 in. Cymes villous, peduncles and pedicels short, stout ; bracts 
persistent; bracteoles numerous, imbricate. Corolla à in. diam, green outside, 
purple within, lobes ovate. Follicles not seen. 
5. UTLERIA, Beddome. 
A glabrous tree. Leaves scattered, narrow, subcrenulate. Flowers minute, 
towards the ends of the long branches of terminal peduncled dichotomous 
cymes. Sepals rounded, glandular within. Corolla subrotate, 5-cleft, lobes 
overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales 5, small, opposite and 
close to the stamens. Filaments short ; anthers ovate, conniving over and adnate 
to the stigma ; pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular; appendages of the 
corpuscles dilated. Stigma convex. Fruit unknown, 
U. salicifolia, Beddome mss. 
Deccan PENINSULA ; Anamallay Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Beddome. . 
Branches stout. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 7-9 by j-l in., 
»itOWly lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, margin thickened waved or crenulate, 
ase very acute; nerves many, very slender, nearly horizontal, reticulations fine; 
petiole 1-2 in. Cymes 4-6 in., sparingly branched ; bracts on the terminal branches 
numerous, imbricate, obtuse ; pedicels short. Corolla 7 in. diam., lobes ovate, acute. 
6 FINLAYSONIA, JWail. 
„A lofty glabrous climber. Leaves opposite. Flowers in 2-3-chotomous 
axillary cymes, yellowish and purple. Sepals rounded, short. Corolla rotate, 
left; lobes ovate, overlapping to the right. Coronal scales 5, close to the 
Stamens, filiform, ‘Stamens on the throat of the corolla, filaments slender ; 
anthers adnate by the middle to the stigma, beardless, tip membranous inflexed 
ee Pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular ; tips of the corpuscles 
Süghtly dilated. Stigma 5-angled, top flat. Follicles divaricate, turgid, nar- 
Towed at both ends, 1-3 winged, tip with a revolute beak. Seeds margined 
With soft retrorse hairs. 
F. obovata, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 48, t. 162, and Cat. 4466; Wight $ 
den, Contrib, 65; Wight IU. t. 182, f. 5; Griff. Notul, iv. 70, and Je. PI. Asiat. 
Sub, dale bac DC. Prodr, viii. 494. Gurua obovata, Ham. in Voigt Hort. 
