Gyjmiema.'\ AsclepiadecE. 153 



Cor.-tube short, with coronal scales free in the throat. 

 FoUicles slender, pointed. 



L. under 2 in., ovate i. G. SYLVESTRE. 



L. over 3 in., rotundate . . . . 2. G. rotundatum. 

 Follicles oblong-ovoid, blunt . . . . 3. G. lactiferum. 

 Cor.-tube long, with coronal processes adnate 



to tube 4. G. pergularioides. 



1. G. sylvestre, Br. m Mem. Wern. Soc. i. ■^'^ (iSii). IKCas- 

 bedde, S. 



Periploca sylvesiris, Retz., Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1252. Moon Cat. 20j 

 Thw. Enum. 197. C. P. 2549. , 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 29 & 31. Wight, Ic. t. 349. 



A woody twiner, covering high trees, branches very- 

 numerous, rather slender, cylindrical, softly and shortly hair}' ; 

 1. rather small, ii-2 in., ovate, rounded at base, shortly 

 acuminate, acute, hairy on the veins, especially beneath, 

 petiole \ in., hairy ; fl. on rather long, slender, hairy ped., 

 cymes short, peduncle shorter than petiole, bracts numerous, 

 minute, hairy; cal.-segm. ovoid, rounded or obtuse, hairy; 

 cor. about \ in. diam., lobes about as long as tube, acute, 

 recurved, coronal scales in throat of cor., fleshy, blunt, pro- 

 duced downwards as double ridges on the tube ; column 

 small; stigma ovoid, prominent, follicles small (one usually 

 suppressed), i|-2 in., slender, tapering. 



Var. j3, zeylanicum, Hk.f. Fl. B. Ind. I. c. Var. Decaisneanicm\ 

 Thw. 1. c. C. P. 1844. 



L. usually rather larger, finely velvety-tomentose on both 

 sides ; fl. rather larger and more numerous in dense crowded 

 cymes. I 



Low country, rather common, especially in the dry and intermediate 

 regions ; var. /3 the common form. Fl. Nov.-Feb., June ; pale yellow. 



Also in S. India and Trop. Africa, var. /3 perhaps endemic. 



I am doubtful as to the S. name ; Moon gives none. The stems are 

 used in native medicine. The Fl. B. Ind. does not credit Ceylon with the 

 type of this species ; and C. P. 2549 is there quoted as var. Thwaitesit 

 of G. lactiferum. Probably there may have been some accidental transfer 

 of tickets between this and C. P. 1847 in the Herbarium at Kew. 

 G. Decaisnea7ium^ Wight (Ic. t. 1271), of the Nilgiris is put in Fl. B. Ind. 

 with G. hirsutum^ W. & A. 



2. G. rotundatum, Thw. E7ium. 197 (i860). 



C. P. 3086. : 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 30. 



Branches stout, finely tomentose; 1. 3-4 in., ovate-rotundatej, 

 bluntly acuminate, slightly hairy above, more so beneath, 

 petiole I in. or more, tomentose, glandular at top ; cymes on. 

 a short peduncle, bifid, fl. numerous; cal.-segm. oblong-obtuse, 



