150 LXXXIJI. ASCLEPIADACE./K. 



-^ in. long, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-lobes about -^ in. long ; tube 

 scarcely any. follicles 3-5 by | in., slender, terete, curved, pointed, 

 often pustular. Seeds 1 in. long, linear-lanceolate, flattened, not beaked, 

 dark-brown ; coma | in. long. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 233 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 166. Toxocarpun crassifolii(S, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. ]48. Toxocarpus Inurifolius, Wight, Contrib. p. 61, 

 and Icon. t. 598. — Flowers : Oct. -Dec. 



KoNKAN : Stocks '., Balzell \ Kanara : N. Kanara Ghats in evergreen forests, 

 common in the forests near the Nilkund and Gairsoi)pa Ghats, Talbot. — Distrib, 

 India (Sikkim Himalaya, W. Peninsula). 



6. GLOSSONEMA, Decaisne. 



Dwarf perennial (rarely annual) herbs, often hoary, branclied from 

 the base. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in few-flowered lateral or 

 sublateral cymes arising from between the base of the petioles, rarely 

 solitary. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla subcarapanulate ; tube short ; lobes 

 5, suberect or spreading, overlapping to the right ; corona arising from 

 the corolla-tube a little above the origin of the staminal-column, of 5 

 broad hyaline obtuse or acute entire or bifid lobes alternating with the 

 corolla-lobes. Staminal-column short ; anthers terminated by an in- 

 flexed membrane ; pollen-masses pendulous, solitary in each anther-cell, 

 attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers by short almost obsolete catidicles. 

 Style-apex usually exserted beyond the anthers, fleshy, conical, cla\ate 

 or peltate. Follicles thick, acuminate, ustially echinate. Seeds comose. 

 • — Distrib. India (Sind), Tropical Africa, Arabia ; species 6. 



1. Glossonema varians, Benth. in Benth. 6f HooTc. f. Gen. PI. v. 2 

 (1876) p. 748. A small erect annual herb 4-6 in. high, much branched 

 from near the base ; branches pubescent. Leaves fleshy, hairy on both 

 sides, l-2g by |-2 in., the lower leaves rotund-ovate, subcordate, obtuse 

 or retuse, the upper elhptic, acuminate; margins entire or crisped; 

 petioles |-g in. long. Flowers fragrant, white or yellow, in subsessile 

 umbellate 2-8-flowered cymes ; pedicels very short ; buds ovoid. Calyx 

 hairy, divided nearly to the base; segments ^ in. long, linear, actite, 

 ciliate. Corolla \ in. long, glabrous ; lobes ^-i in. long, oblong, obtuse, 

 veined ; corona-lobes about j'^ in. long, erecto-pateiit, entire or bifid at 

 the apex. Pollen-masses attached to the pollen-carriers by very short 

 caudicles. Style-apex conical, fleshy, much exserted. Follicles 1-2 in, 

 long, ellipsoid, beaked, attenuated at the base, covered with short soft 

 scattered spines and minutely cano-pubescent. Seeds \~ in. long, 

 broadly ovate, acute, much flattened, and with very thin (almost papery) 

 margins, sinuate-dentate at the broader end (Stocls), yellowish-brown ; 

 coma J in. long, white. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 16 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 166. Masfostlfjma varinns, Slocks, in Hook. Icon. 

 PI. V. 9(1852) t. 863; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 89.— Flowers : Dec. 

 Veen. Muncfci. 



In the Bombay Presidcney confined to Sind. Sind: Vwarj/\, Dahcll], BJiola 

 Puran !, Woodrvw ; Jemadar ka Landa near Karaclii, Stockx, 4()7 ! ; Karachi, in stony 

 ground very connnon, Stocks, 64! — DisTiuii. Uelncliistaii, Persia. 



llie follicles are eaten raw in Sind. 



