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1276. TyIophora. Iphtsia (Dec- in D. C. Prod. : 



iphisia multijlora W. and A,) voluble, glabrous : 

 leaves ovate or ovato-lanceolate or subcordate at 



sborter : stigma subapiculate entire : follicles winged. 



Ditc, in D, C, Prod, 



Slopes of the Neilgherries, Courtallunij &c., twin-' 



the base, acute or abruptly cuspidate at the ing amon^ hedges and bushes. The draftsman seems 



apex, glabrous,' succulent; petiols glanduliferous at 

 the origin of the limb i peduncles about tbe length of 

 the smaller leaves, subflexuose, usually with short 

 gecundary peduncles bearing two or three ftowers : 



either to have altogether overlooked the axillary leaf-.* 

 lets, or they must have been wanting in his specimen* 

 The genus Cynoctonum, is separated from Cynan- 

 chum, on account of some differences in the struc- 



pedicels short, s^ut, flowers small, dark dull purple; ture of the crown, but which to niy mind do not 

 leaflets of the staminal crown shorter than the gynos^ possess more than sectional value, 

 tegium : pollen masses globose, pendulous from the 



flex 



3280. Cynoctokum alatum (Dec. in D. C. 



follicles glabrous, ventricose at the base, attenuated Prod., CyHGWc^wmaZafwrn W. and A.) twining, pube 



towards the apex. 



^ In clumps of jungle, freqUent about Ootacamund/ 



flowering auring the autumnal months. 



The peculiar character of the pollenia led me when 

 I first became acquainted with this species, to suppose 

 it formed the type of a new genuis, an error which ^ 



dorrect. 



quamta 



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rulous, ramuli bifariously puberulous, leaves ovate, 

 or oval, acuminate, more or less cordate, glaucous be- 

 neath, above and the petiols sprinkled with hairs : pe- 

 duncles short, seldom exceeding the petiol, many 

 flowered ; pedicels longer than the peduncles : staminal 

 crown truncated, 10 crenate, the alternate denliculse 

 a little shorter :■ stigma apiculate, cleft : follicles flatten* 

 ed on one side, the angles winged, — DeCn in D. C. 



Prod.y 8, 529. 



Courtallum flowering during the rainy months. The 



voluble, glabrous or pubescent, branches slender: leaves are represented much too hairy in the figure,^ on 

 leaves ovate, or roundish, abruptly acuminate, often 

 cordate at the base, glabrous above ; petiols subterete, 

 eglandulose : peduncles shorter than the leaves with 

 two or three sessile, few flowered umbels towards the 

 extremity : flowers largish, long pedicelled : lacineaef 

 of the corolla acute : leaflets of the staminal crown- 

 fleshy depressed, embracing the base of the gynos- 

 tegium prolonged at the ape?t into a tooth equalling 

 the gynostegum :' pollen maeses transverse, small, 

 globose, stigma obtuse, follicles divaricating, attenuate 



glabrous.— iJtfc. inD.C.Prod., 8, p.6ll. 



A vdry abundant and widely diflFused plant, to be 

 met with in nearly all situations and in flower at all 

 seasons. Though easily recognized, it is from its 

 liability to variatibh difficult to define. In the recent 

 state it is most readily distinguished from a nearly 

 allied species, by its radish or dull pink coloured 

 flowers, and the toothed leaflets of the crown, the 



the young ones, hairs are pretty thickly scattered, but 

 the older are nearly glabrous, the artist has not ob- 

 served the difference and made all alike too hairy. 



This seems to be a rare plant, as I have not met 

 with it e^^cept at Courtallum. 



1281. Sarcostekma intermedium (Dec. in D. 

 C. Prod.) twining : umbels terminal, pedicels and calyx 

 whitish : lobes of the corolla oblong, undulated, gla* 

 brous: exterior staminal crown 10 toothed, teeth 

 equal j leaflets of the interior ovate, equalling or ex* 

 ceeding the anthers : stigma conical, apiculate, ob- 

 scurely cleft, follicles linear, oblong, bluntish. — Dec, 



in D. C. Prod. , 



Not unfrequent in arid jungles all over India, and 



in hedges by road sides, twining extensively over trees 



or bushes. The flowers are pure white, and when the 



plant is in full flower, from their numbers and com- 



1282. 



other having greenish flowers, and obtusely rounded pact arrangement, very ornamental, 

 edentate coronal leaflets. The roots partake in an 

 eminent degree of the properties of fpecacuana. 



1278. CALOTRaPis PROCERA (R. Br. C. Hamth 

 toniana, W. and A.) lobes of the corolla patulous, 

 revolute on the margin :' leaflets of the crown of the 

 stamens equalling the short depressed gynostegiura, 

 tie circinate portion short, often acuminate. — Dec, in 



D. C.Prod., 8, 535. , , . ,^ 



XiA widely distributed plant, very abundant m the 

 Bellary districts \*hence the specimen figured was oV- 

 tained, but quite unknown in the Southern provinces 

 6f the peninsula where it itf replaced by the equally 

 common C, giganted. 



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A.) twining, umbels lateral, sessile, the pedicels and 

 calyx canescent r lubes of the corolla ovato-lancf olate, 

 glabrous : exterior staminal crown subplicate, 10 ere* 

 nate, the alternate denticula subobsolate; interior 

 shorter than the anthers : stigma apiculate, subentir*^ 

 Coimbatore, in arid jungles, flowering during thd 

 dry season, also in other similar localities, exten- 

 sively over the southern provinces but generally rare. 

 Like the other it twines extensively over any support it 

 may find. The flowers and umbels are smaller and lessr 

 conspicuous than in the other. These plants are most 

 frequently met with growing among the milk hedges 

 {Euporh. Tirucalli) and being like it leafless and sue* 



lora CYNacTONUM CALLtALATA (Dcc. Cynavi^ culent, are often, by careless observers, supposed to be 

 chumCaUiataia Ham. W. and A.) twining, glabrous :■ the flower of that plant. Tbis mistake might be pro. 



leaves ovate or oval, shortly acuminate, cordiate, with 

 a narrow sinus at the baSe, glaucous beneath, above 

 glanduliferous at the petiol, diphyllous in the axils : 

 peduncles half the length of the petiols, flowers um- 



ductive of unpleasant consequences, for the ascle- 

 piadeous plant being eatable, is sometimes eat by the 

 natives as a' sallad, if the Euphorbia was by mistake 

 substituted, it would blister the mouth, and probably 

 cause extensive and obstinate inflammation of the 



lobes 'opposite the anthers bifid, the alternate ones fauces, the juice being very acrid. 



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