14 XCV. ASCLEPIADES. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Toxocarpus. 
Western Hiwataya; Chaumussoore, Falconer. Assam and Kuasta Mers., Jen- 
kins, Griffith, H. f. & T. &c. 
Leaves 3-5 by 13-3 in., quite glabrous when old, base acute or rounded, petiole 
3-2 in. Corolla lin. diam. ; lobes membranous, slender, villous at the base within. 
Follicles 4-6 by 3-2 in., young rusty-pubescent. Seeds ovate, beaked, 2 in. long.— 
The only Himalayan specimen is Falconer’s, and probably from Garwhal. 
tt Corolla-segments glabrous throughout. 
4. T. Roxburghii, W. $ A. Contrib. 61; stem cymes and calyx sparsely 
hirsute, leaves broadly elliptic cuspidate membranous glabrous base subacute, 
cymes spreading much shorter than the leaves, flowers few sessile, coronal 
scales acute hardly overtopping the anther-cells, stigma fusiform. Wight Ic. t. 
475; Wall. Cat. 8239; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 505 ; Asclepias longistigma, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 46. 
Tue Crrcars, Heyne ; Roxburgh. 
Leaves 23 3 by 13-2 in., midrib sparsely puberulous beneath; petiole 1—3 in. and 
nerves very slender. Cymes shortly peduncled ; flowers solitary or clustered, } in. 
diam. ; bracts very minute.—I am in doubt about this plant, for which Wight cites 
n. 1561 as his catalogue number, for the solitary specimen in his “ Herbarium " has 
no number, locality, or collector's name attached. Good specimens are however in 
Rottlers ** Herbarium," sent by Heyne as Echites dichotoma, Herb. Heyne (not the 
plant published under that name), and in Wallich's also from Heyne. Roxburgh 
gives no locality for it in his “ Flora," but Wight gives the Circars on Roxburgh's 
autbority. The flowers in his (Roxburgh’s) drawing are twice as large as in the 
specimens. Wight and Arnott and Decaisne describe the corolla-throat as hirsute, 
which is perfectly glabrous in Roxburgh’s drawing and in the specimens; and the 
cymes as longer than the leaves, whereas they are much shorter. As a species it i$ 
very near 7. Kleinii, but is a much more slender less villous plant, with very short 
coronal scales. 
5. T. Kleinii, Wight § Arn. Contrib. 61; leaves from elliptic-ovate or 
obovate or lanceolate to orbicular acuminate or cuspidate glabrous or pubescent 
beneath base acute, cymes spreading and calyx densely tomentose, flowers few 
sessile and pedicelled, coronal scales overtopping the anther-cells, stigma long 
fusiform tip slender notched. Wight Ic. t. 886; Dene. in DC. Prodr. vii. 
505. 
Hills of the Deccan Penrtnsuta, from the Concan southwards. Cryton; Matu- 
ratte district alt. 3000 ft. Thwaites; Galle, Champion. 
Very near T. Roxburghii, but stouter, with more coriaceous leaves, longer more 
densely tomentose cymes, larger usually pedicelled flowers i in. diam., less mem- 
branous calyx and corolla, and longer coronal scales. Follicles quite glabrous, more 
or less curved, some 3 by } in. and flattened, others 7 by } in. and nearly cylindric. 
Seeds X in. ovate, hardly beaked.—In some specimens, both Peninsular and 
Ceylonese, the leaves are narrow, 2 by ł in., quite glabrous and shining on both 
surfaces, in others they are 2} in. long and broad, rusty-pubescent beneath. I do not 
find the tube of the corolla to be pubescent within as figured by Wight. 
6. T. concanensis, Hook. f.; leaves obovate or elliptic cuspidate 
mottled and glabrous or pubescent beneath, cymes densely tomentose much 
branched many-fld., coronal scales hardly overtopping the anther-cells, stigma 
long slender. 
Canara; on the Bababoodan hills, Law. 
This again closely resembles T. Kleinii, but the leaves are much larger, 3-5 by 
21-3 in. more obovate, with petioles 3-5 in. long, and the cymes are more divided, 
very many-flowered, densely tomentose. The leaves are dark green, minutely mottled 
between the nerves beneath in a branching reticulated manner, a character I do not 
