30 XCV. ASCLEPIADES. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Gymnema. 
4. G. acuminatum, Wall. Tent. Fl.. Nep. 50; Cat. 8187 ; branches 
stout, petioles leaves beneath cymes and sepals densely tomentose, leaves 3-6 in. 
coriaceous ovate acuminate, cymes peduncled globose, corolla 1 in. diam. lobes 
labrous not ciliate, follicles turgid ovoid beaked woody, seeds large elliptic 
roadly winged. Wight Contrib. 45; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 622. Cynanchum 
acuminatum, Herb. Ham.  Asclepias acuminata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, and 
Fi. Ind. ii. 55. 
East Benaat, Griffith. Struet and Tenassertm, Wallich. Cutrracone, Roxburgh. 
Maracca, Griffith, Maingay. 
A large climbing shrub, bark of old wood spongy and split (Roxburgh). Leaves 
coriaceous, rather shining above; petiole 3-1 in. Calyx villous. Follicles 3 in. long, 
base cordate, thickly woody, narrowed into a stout beak, glabrous. Seeds $ in. long, 
flat, wing broad membranous. 
5. G. latifolium, Wall. in Wight. Contrib. 45, and Cat. 8188; branches 
stout petioles leaf-nerves beneath cymes and sepals finely pubescent, leaves large 
orbicular acute or cuspidate, cymes 2-nate peduncled very many-fld. globose, 
pedicels slender, corolla-lobes ciliolate thickened and puberulous, follicles 
slender punctate, seeds narrow. Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 623. 
Sttuet; Burma, at Trogla and the Saluen river, Wallich. 
Leaves 4-5 in. long and nearly as broad, base rounded or subacute, glabrous above 
except the. puberulous midrib, pale beneath; nerves spreading; petiole j-1 in. 
Cymes k-1 in. diam. ; peduncle 4-} in.; pedicels very slender. Sepals broadly ovate, 
pibe Corolla à; in. diam.  Follicles 3 in. long, thinly coriaceous. Seeds as in G. 
syl vestre. 
6. G. glabrum, Wight Contrib. 45; branches stout and petioles leaf- 
nerves beneath and cymes and sepals finely pubescent, leaves large broadly ovate 
or oblong acuminate, cymes 2-nate peduncled globose many-fld., pedicels 
slender, corolla very minute, lobes glabrous not ciliate thickened, follicles fusi- 
form. Wail. Cat. 8189; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 623, 
Burma ; at Taong-dong, Wallich. 
Very similar in foliage to G. latifolium, but the leaves are hardly so rounded and 
the petioles 1-13 in. long; the flowers }-—} in. diam., and the follicles are lanceolate 
in outline, 4 by 1 in., thinly woody, glabrous, smooth; the seeds broadly ovate j in. 
long, flat. 
7. G. rotundatum, Thwaites Enum. 107; branches petioles leaves 
beneath cymes and sepals tomentose, leaves long-petioled rounded-ovate obtusely 
acuminate subpilose above, petiole glandular, cymes 2-nate peduncled densely 
many-fld., sepals rounded, corolla-lobes not ciliat ite al 
cesses wholly below the sinus. ciliate quite glabrous, coronal pro- 
Crrton; central province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 
I have seen but one specimen; it differs from G. Jatifolinm chiefly in the longer 
petioles, 1-1} in. and peduncles. The fruit is wanting to tell its affinity. It differs 
from all others of this section in the coronal processes having no free points between 
e sinus. 
8. G. lactiferum, Zr. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 33; branches petioles and 
nerves beneath glabrous or puberulous, leaves ovate oblong or lanceolate acumi- 
nate point often long, cymes peduncled and broadly oblong or rounded, sepals 
glabrous or sparsely hairy, corolla } in. diam. lobes short ciliolate glabrous. 
Wight Contrib. A4; Dene: in DC. Prodr. vii 699. nS Onte glabrous 
Kuasa Mrs., Maray Peninsvta, and CerLox.—Disrrir. Sumatra, Borneo. 
A stout climber. Leaves 2-4 by 3-1] in., coriaceous, brown when dry; nerves 
