42 XCV. ASCLEPIADEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Tylophora. 
describes the processes of the column as toothed on the inner margin below the tip, 
and the pollen-masses as transverse. 
10. T. longifolia, Wight Contrib. 50; quite glabrous, leaves lanceolate 
from a broad cordate base acuminate, cymes elongate bearing small distant 
umbels on the very long slender rachis, sepals ovate, corolla-lobes short ovate 
obtuse, coronal processes gibbous. Wall. Cat. 8205; Dene. in DC. Prodr. 
Sixxm HrwaLaya, alt. 2000 ft, Clarke. Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., Wal- 
lich, &c. 
Stem and branches slender. Leaves 3-6 by $13 in., membranous, nerves distant ; 
petiole 3-1 in. Cymes very slender and few-fld. Corolla 2 in. diam., yellow. Follicles 
not seen. 
ll. T. himalaica, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves petioled ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate base acute or rounded, cymes bearing short distant umbels 
on the very long slender rachis, sepals lanceolate, corolla-lobes oblong-ovate 
obtuse, coronal processes gibbous. 
Western Hmaraya (Suhunsudhara), Falconer. Sixxrw HiwALAxa, alt. 3000 ft., 
Thomson, Clarke. Kuasia Mrs., alt. 0-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
Very closely allied to 7. longifolia, but the leaves are very different; always 
contracted, generally acute, and never cordate at the base ; and the flowers are twice 
as large, with narrow longer sepals, more membranous longer corolla-lobes, and à 
much larger column. Follicles 4-5 in., narrowly poniard-shaped. Seeds } in. long, 
broadly ovate.—I have observed a very few hairs on the sepals. 
12. T. zeylanica, Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 608; quite glabrous, leaves 
large fleshy ovate elliptic or almost rounded acuminate acute or apiculate, 
cymes elongate bearing few- or many-fld. umbels or racemes on the divaricate 
branches, sepals ovate obtuse, corolla lobes oblong-ovate obtuse, coronal pro- 
-cesses gibbous. T. micrantha, Thwaites Enum. 197. Cynanchum micranthum, 
Thunb. Diss. 6; DC. Lc. 548. 
Travancore, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. Cxyton ; Central province, alt. 2-4000 ft. 
A tall climber. Leaves 4-6 by 2-4 in.; midrib thick with a gland above at the 
insertion of the petiole; nerves spreading; petiole 1-1} in. Flowers à in, diam. ; 
pedicels slender. Follicles 4-6 in., slender. Seeds } in. long, linear-oblong.—In one 
of Beddome's specimens the flower-bearing tips of the branches are thickened and 
covered with spirally placed scars, each subtended by a minute bract at the insertion 
of the pedicels. 
13. T. tenuis, Blume Bid. 1062; very slender, quite glabrous, leaves 
small fleshy ovate elliptic or oblong obtuse acute or apiculate, base acute oT 
rounded, peduncle capillary simple or branched bearing few-fld. sessile umbels, 
pedicels capillary, sepals ovate acute, corolla-lobes short ovate obtuse, coronal 
processes gibbous or globose. Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 608. T. carnosa, Wall. 
in Wight Contrib. 49; Wall. Cat. 8200; Wight. Ic. t. 351; Dene. l.c. 607 ; T. 
tenuissima, Wight & Arn. Contrib. 47; Wight Ic. t. 588; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fi. 150. Dene, lc. 607. Asclepias tenuissima, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and 
FL Ind. i. 4l. A. dichotoma, Rotti. in Wall. Cat. 8200 B.C.  Ceropegi@ 
Decaisneana, Miquel Pl. Hohenack. n. 634. 
BexcaL, Roxburgh; Salt Lakes near Calcutta and Sunderbunds, Clarke, DeccaN | 
PrxiNsULA, from Canara southwards. Brrma, Wallich. Maracca, Griffith, Maingay. 
Cryton, hotter parts of the Island, Walker, &c.—DisrRrB. Java, Borneo. 
Very slender, prostrate or twining. Leaves rarely 1} in. long, very variable iP 
form and breadth, base sometimes cordate, nerves few indistinct ; petiole 3-4 in. 
Flowers rarely à in. diam., dark purple; pedicels 4-} in. Pollen-masses suberect 
Follicles 3 in. long, poniard-shaped, pericarp membranous, Seeds 1 in., ovate. 
