Cynanckuin.'] Asclepiadece. 151 



oblong-ovate, cordate at base, with rounded lobes, suddenly- 

 acute at apex, glabrous above, pubescent on veins beneath, 

 rather thick, venation reticulate, conspicuous, pellucid, petiole 

 \-\\ in., stout; fl. few,. on long stout ped., cymes pedunculate, 

 glabrous, bracts minute; sep. oval, obtuse, glabrous; cor. i-ii 

 in. diam., lobes broadly ovate-oval, obtuse, glabrous; follicles 

 (one usually suppressed) 5-6 in., fusiform-oblong, blunt, cylin- 

 drical, with a deep furrow along each side, fleshy. 



Dry country ; very rare. About Nilgala, Bibile, &c., Uva Province. 

 FI. Jan. ; purplish-crimson, pale pink outside. 



Throughout India and Burma. 



A handsome, large-flowered species. Since recording this in Journ. 

 Bot. I have found in the collection of drawings an unnamed sketch of the 

 fruit, collected at Nilgala in 1858, and in the herbarium (also unnamed), 

 under C. P. 3582, are some leaves from the same locality. This C. P. 

 number is not referred to by Thwaites in his Enum. 



10. CYNANCIZUni, L. 



Herbaceous twiner, fl. rather small, cymes umbellate; cal.- 

 segm. 5, narrow, acute; cor. rotate, lobes 5, very deep, oblong, 

 valvate ; corolline corona large, tubular, 5-lobed, adnate to 

 base of column; column exserted, stam. 5, connate, fil. short, 

 broad, anth. with erect membranous tips, pollen-masses i in 

 each cell, not compressed, pendulous, no staminal corona ; 

 foUicles narrow, tapering; seeds comose. — Sp. 100; 16 in 

 FL B. Ind. 



C pauciflorum, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 45 (181 1). Kan- 

 kuxnbala, S. 



C. peduncidatum, Thunb. Obs. in Cynanch. 6(?). Hoy a alexiaca^ 

 Moon Cat. 21 (.'' Willd.). Cynoctonum pauci/lorum, Dene., Thw. Enum. 

 195. C. P. 2466. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 23. Wight, Ic. t. 354. 



Stem slender, twining, with long internodes, glabrous ; 

 1. I2-3I in., ovate or oblong-ovate, usually cordate at base, 

 with rounded lobes, very acute at apex, glabrous, thin, petiole 

 long, slender (usually there is a pair of rounded 1. in axil — 

 the first pair of an arrested branch — looking like stipules); 

 fl. on rather long ped., cymes on short peduncles ; cor. under 

 I in. diam., corona as long as cor., plicate; follicles divaricate 

 in a straight line, 2J-3 in., fusiform, much tapering to blunt 

 point, smooth and glabrous. 



Moist region, up to 4000 ft. ; common. Fl. Jan.-March ; pale purple. 



Also in South India. 



Thunberg's description of 'C pedunculatu7n'' does not quite agree 



