286 ASCLEPIADACE^. 



broader than the base, green blotched with dark 

 purple ; its lobes ciliate with dark purple hairs : junction 

 of the tube and basal part also hairy. Coronal lobes 

 ten, linear clavate : inner processes nearly or quite as long 

 as them, linear, glabrous (fifteen linear structures in all). 

 Follicles '2 to 9 inches, very slender, terete : seed usually 

 J^ inch, linear, convex on one face, deeply grooved on 

 the other.' Wight Ic t. 1265. 



Nilgiris : Kotagiri. Pulneys : below Kodaikanal at Shem- 

 baganur. Fyson 1906. 



Gen. Dist. of *' C. elegans Waliy in F.B.I. : " Malabar and Tra- 

 vancore mountains from Nilgiris to Ceylon. " 



I find in my specimens the coronal lobes as long as the five inner pro- 

 cesses. Wallich in Bot. Mag. t. 3015, where the species C. elegans was 

 first described, shows them shorter. His Cat. 8135, the type plant, appears 

 to be hardly the same as his Cat. 8138, nor as Wight's Herb. Prop. 1 513, 

 which are the types of C. sphenanantha W. dr' A. The latter is therefore 

 1 think a distinct species, though reduced tentatively in F.B.I. 



Ceropegia intermedia Wight; F.B.L iv 71, L 19. 

 Stem slender but stouter than in C. sphenanantha. Leaf- 

 stalk ^ inch : blade 2 to 2^ by ^ to % inch, lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends. Flowers in axillary irregular umbels: 

 peduncle I inch : pedicels Yz inch, very slender. Corolla 

 tube I inch : lobes ^ inch or less forming a conical crown. 

 Coronal lobes short or absent : inner processes five, long 

 (1/12 inch), dilated upwards. 



Pulneys: on the slopes above Shembaganur, and in that 

 valley, Poombari ; flowering in June. Fysofi 564, 191 7. Bourne 

 329, 115.^, 1602. 



Gen. Dist. Ceylofi and Courtallum {Wighf) ; Anamalais ( Bedd07tie). 



Ceropegia thwaitesii Hoolz, ; F.B.L iv 71, L 20- 

 Stem much as in C. intermedia Wight, but flowers much 

 larger up to 2j^ inches. Follicles 8 to 9 inches. 



Pulneys near Kodaikanal. Bourne 83. 



Gen. Dist. Travancore, Ceylon. 



