Tylophora.] XCV. ASCLEPIADEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 4l 
Stem rather stout, 2-3 feet long. Leaves 11-23 by 1-1l in, dark green, rather 
coriaceous ; petiole 5-4 in. Peduneles longer than the petiole ; pedicels short. Sepals 
quite glabrous. Corolla } in. diam., yellow or dark purple. Anthers large for the 
size of the column, horny, with broad inflexed tips; pollen-masses horizontal. 
Follicles 3-33 in. long, poniard-shaped, glabrous. Seeds 3 in. long, narrowly ovate.-— 
The anthers of this are much larger than in any of its congeners. Hohenacker’s is 
the only Peninsular specimen that I have seen; it is identical with the Ceylon ones. 
The corpuscles are long, linear with a central groove, quite different from those of 
T. fasciculata. 
** Stems and branches long, twining, and cymes perfectly glabrous ; sepals 
always glabrous (see also 7* [phisia); coronal processes without free points 
(except T. himalaica). 
6. T. capparidifolia, Wight § Arn. Contrib. 51; quite glabrous, 
leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong obtuse acute or apiculate pale veined coriaceous, 
cymes shortly peduncled or sessile, pedicels capillary, flowers minute, sepals 
ovate, corolla subglobose, lobes short ovate, coronal processes globose. Dene. in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 610; Wall. Cat. 8208. Asclepias tenuis, Herb. Heyne. 
Travancore ; Courtallam, Heyne, Wight. . . . 
Branches rigidly flexuous. Leaves 2-4 by 3-11 in., rigid ; petiole $-} in. Cymes 
much shorter than the leaves, pedicels }-} in. Corolla 4 in. diam. Follicles 3 in. 
long, poniard-shaped.— Wight describes the coronal processes as toothed on the inner 
margin below the tip, a character I fail to verify. 
7. T. globifera, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves short-petioled oblong 
or ovate acuminate or apiculate, cymes long-peduncled compound few-fld. 
pedicels capillary, sepals ovate-lanceolate, corolla-lobes short ovate, coronal pro- 
cesses very large globose as high as the anthers. 
Maracca, Griffith. Sovran ANDAMAN ISLAND, Kurz. 
Leaves 1-3 by 4-11 in. dark brown when dry, base rounded or cordate, nerves. 
few; petiole l-iin. Peduncles 1-14 in., very stout; pedicels j-1 in. Corolla } in. 
lam. Staminal column very short, depressed. 
8. T. pauciflora, Wight & Arn. Contrib. 44 ; quite glabrous, leaves long- 
petioled ovate-lanceolate or cordate acuminate, cymes long-peduncled few-fld. 
compound, sepals ovate acute, corolla-lobes short ovate, coronal processes very 
large globose as high as the anthers. Wight Ic. t. 1274; Dene. in DC. Prodr. 
Vii. 607. T. asthmatica 8 glabra, Thwaites Enum. 19. “Cynanchum flavens 
and bracteatum, Thunb. ; Dene. in DC. l.c. 549” (T hwaites). 
Deccan PenrNsura; from S. Canara to Malabar and Travancore, Wight, &c. 
YLON, not uncommon, Thwaites. . 
Branches rather stout. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., rather thin, nerves slender ; 
petiole 3-1 in. Peduncles longer than the petioles ; pedicels very variable. Corolla 
4 in. diam. Column and coronal processes much as in T. globifera, from which this 
differs in the leaves and long petioles.— The North Bengal locality attributed to this 
in DC. Prodr, is doubtless an error. Thwaites’ specimen of T. asthmatica B glabra is 
Very imperfect, but I think referable to this. 
9. T. purpurea, Wall. in Wight Contrib. 51, and Cat. 8208; quite gla- 
brous, leaves oblong-lanceolate apiculate base cordate, cymes long-pedancied 
ew-fid., se ovate, corolla-lobes short ovate, coronal processes gibbous. 
- tn DC. Prodr. viii, 611. 
Bmw ; banks of the Irawaddy, Wallich. 
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mbles T. pauciflora, but the leaves are narrower, more cordate at the base, an 
the coronal pioripéoe jo developed. The specimens are very insufficient. Wight. 
