878 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. I. carnosum (R. Br.) Merr. & Rolfe. 
A slender, perennial, twining, glabrous vine 2 to 5 m high. Leaves 
smooth and shining, when fresh somewhat fleshy, elliptic-ovate to oblong, 
base rounded or acute, apex apiculate, 2 to 5 cm long, 1 to 3.5 cm wide, thé 
petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 5 to 10 mm long, 
each bearing from 1 to 8 or 4, subumbellately disposed fiowers, the pedicels 
slender, up to 1.5 em long. Flowers straw-colored, the corolla-tube very 
short, the limb spreading, radiate, nearly 1.5 cm in diameter, the corolla- 
lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, curved. 
In thickets along tidal streams, Pasay, fl. Aug.—Sept.; rare in the 
Philippines. Malay Peninsula and Australia. 
5. GYMNEMA R. Brown 
Woody or herbaceous twining vines with opposite ovate leaves. Flowers 
small in axillary umbels or umbelliform cymes. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 
campanulate or subrotate, the lobes thick, twisted in bud, imbricate or 
subvalvate. Corona-processes 5, attached to the corolla-tube, of 5 fleshy 
lobes, adnate up to the mouth of the corolla, with more or less free incurved 
points, or of 5 pairs of fleshy ridges on the lower part of the tube alternating 
with the lobes. Column short. Anther-tips small, thin. Stigma large, 
conical, clavate, or capitate, exserted. Follicles slender, terete, acuminate, 
the seeds with a coma. (Greek “naked” and “filament.’) 
Species about 25 in Asia, Africa, Malaya, and Australia, 2 or 3 in the - 
Philippines. 
1. G. tingens (Roxb.) W. & A. 
A rather slender woody vine reaching a height of 10 m, nearly glabrous. 
Leaves thin, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, base broadly rounded or 
somewhat cordate, 6 to 12 cm long, the nerves prominent beneath. Inflores- 
cence axillary, many-flowered, solitary, somewhat pubescent, umbel-like, 
the pedicels equaling or longer than the peduncles. Flowers straw-yellow 
with a faint odor, about 5 mm long, slightly pubescent externally, the corolla- 
tube short, broad, the lobes ovate or oblong. Follicles about 10 cm long, 
lanceolate. Seeds flattened, about 1.3 cm long, the coma soft, white, shining. 
(Fl. Filip. pl. 402, Bidaria inodora.) 
In thickets, Pasay, fl. July-Aug.; of local occurrence in the Philippines. 
India to southern China and the Malay Peninsula. 
6. TYLOPHORA R. Brown 
Twining, suffrutescent or somewhat woody vines with opposite leaves. 
Flowers small, in simple or branched axillary cymes. Calyx 5-parted, with 
5 glands within. Corolla rotate or somewhat campanulate, deeply 5-lobed, 
lobes slightly imbricate. Corona of 5, small, fleshy, tubercular processes, 
adnate to the filament part of the staminal-column. . Staminal-column at- 
tached to the base of the corolla; anthers with small, membranaceous ap- 
pendages. Ovary of 2 carpels. Fruit of 1 or 2 follicles, slender, acuminate, 
smooth, sometimes inflated. Seeds comose. (Greek “knot” and “to bear” 
in allusion to the thickened processes of the corona.) 
Species about 50, extending from India to Australia, about 10 in the 
Philippines. 
