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bottom of the corolla; filaments connate; anthers small, erect or con- 

 niving round the style-apex, usually with a minutely fimbriate submem- 

 branous border ; pollen-masses minute, 2 in each cell (20 in all), 

 pendulous, waxy. Style-apex produced into a long slender erect beak. 

 I'ollicles smooth. Seeds comose. — Disteib. Tropical Asia and Africa ; 

 species about 15. 



1. Toxocarpus Kleinii, Wight Sf Am. in Wight, Contrih. (1834) 

 p. 61. A twining shrub; young parts rufous-hairy; stem long, more 

 or less rufous-tomentose. Leaves 2^-3| by l\-2\'m., ovate-elliptic or 

 obovate, sometimes lanceolate, shortly acuminate, glabrous above, glabrous 

 or pubescent beneath, base acute ; main nerves 4-5 pairs, slender, with 

 reticulate veins between ; petioles \-^ in. long, pubescent. Flowers in 

 rusty-pubescent paniculate axillary cymes ; pedicels variable in leugtli, 

 sometimes nearly i in. long, someliuies almost U, rufous-pubescent ; 

 bracts linear-oblong, obtuse, luiiry. Calyx rufous-hairy; segments gin. 

 long, ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, with scai'ious margins. Corolla 

 glabrous ; tube | in. long ; lobes ^^ in. long, strap-sliaped, much re- 

 curved, overlapping to the left in bud. Beak of style-apex long, slender, 

 follicles 3-6 by ^-^ in., tapering to a point at the apex, slightly curved, 

 glabrous. Seeds ^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, scarcely beaked ; coma 

 1 in. long. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 14 ; Grab. Cat. p. 122 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 886 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 233 ; Trim. ¥\. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 146. 

 — Flowers: Nov.-Mar. 



A rare plant in the Bombay Presidency. Konkan : Stocks !, Law !, Talhof ; Salsette, 

 Graham. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



Toxocarpus concanensis, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) p. 14, with obovate elliptic 

 cuspidate mottled glabrous or pubescent leaves S-f) by 2^-3 in., is given in tlie Flora 

 of British India as occurring in Ivaiiara (though not found there by Mr. Talbot), and 

 as occurring in the Bababudan hills (which are outside our area), fide Mr. Law. 

 Except in the size of the leaves it does not seem to differ from T. Kleinii. 



5. GENIANTHUS, Hook. f. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Mowers small, in axillary sub- 

 simple or dichotomously branched cymes. Calyx minute ; lobes oblong, 

 obtuse. Corolla-tube short ; lobes narrow, spreading and recurved, 

 usually villous to the tip on the inner face, valvate ; corona of 5 scales 

 adnate to the column. Staininal-column minute ; pollen-masses 2 in 

 each cell (20 in all), minute, M-axy. .Style-apex sessile and capitate, 

 or long and slender. — Distkib. Tropical Asia and Malaya; species 

 3 or 4. 



A new genus described by Sir J. Hooker in Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) p. 15. The genus 

 is distinguished from Toxocarpus by the bearded corolla-lobes and their valvate 

 itstivation. 



1. Genianthus laurifolius, IIoolc f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) p. 16. 

 A twining shrub ; stem terete, striate, pustular, glabrous. Leaves 3-4 

 by lg-22 in., broadly elliptic, acuminate, glabrous, base acute ; main 

 nerves 8-10 pairs, slender ; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers in axillary 

 slender branched paniculate cymes, of 2 forms on the same cyme, one 

 with narrow linear obtiise reflexed corolla-lobes densely bearded inside, 

 the other with broader oblong segments nearly glabrous inside, scarcely 

 reflexed; pedicels short or 0. Calyx pubescent outside; segments 



