282 ASCLEPIADACE.^. 



umbel-like cymes) of shallow or cup-shaped monopetalous 

 flowers with petals overlapping to the right. Corona 

 lobes thick and adnate to the corolla. Anthers with 

 small membranous tip. Polliniums solitary in each cell 

 (ten in all). Follicle terete, slender. 



Species 28 in tropical and sub-tropical regions of Africa, 

 Asia, and Australia. 



Gymncma hirsutum Wight and Arnott ; Wight Herb' 

 Prop.!; F.B.I. iv 29, XXX 2. A fairly stout twiner, all 

 green parts covered with soft brown pubescence, specially 

 dense on the stem. Leaf-stalks % inch : blades ij^ 

 to 2% by I to I J4 inches, ovate acute or cuspidate. Cymes 

 subsessile. Sepals 1/20 inch. Corolla % inch, yellowish- 

 brown : lobes spreading, thickened and ciliate. Follicles 

 l^ inches, slender, glabrous. 1. 190. Wight Ic. tt. 12/1 

 and 1272. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund and to Pykara common, 

 Coonoor. Fyson. Bou7'7ie. Not on the upper Pulneys. Not 

 recorded with certainty elsewhere. 



TYLOPHORA. f.b.i. 95 xxxvi. 



Herbaceous or woody slender plants, usually twiners, 

 with opposite leaves and loose racemes (simple or 

 branched) of small flowers with petals overlapping 

 slightly to the right and spreading out flat. Coronal 

 processes thick and fleshy, with short free tips, bending 

 inwards and broadening outwards, attached to the 

 stamens but free of the corolla. Anthers erect on very 

 short filaments with membranous inflexed tips : 

 polliniums one in each cell (ten in all) erect, minute. 

 Follicle acuminate, smooth. 



Species 40 in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of Asia, 

 Africa and Australia, New Caledonia and Norfolk Isles. 



All green parts softly hairy T. moUissima. 



All parts glabrous T. tenuis. 



