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2. Gymnema montanum, Hooh. f. Fl. B. I. \. 4 (18S3) p. 31. 

 A twilling shrub glabrous or nearly so ; branches sleuder, smooth. 

 Leaves 3-4| by 1^-2 in., coriaceous, oblong or ovate-oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, acute or acumiuate, glabrous ; petioles ^-^ in. long, 

 puberulous. Flowers greenish-yellow^ (Dah. <|- Gibs.), in corymbose at 

 length racemose cymes ; peduncles shorter than the petioles, pubescent; 

 pedicels |-i in. long, pubescent ; bracts minute, oblong, obtuse, ciliate. 

 Calyx divided to the base; sepals i in. long, huear-oblong, reflexed, 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube g in. long, narrowly campanulate ; lobes about 

 equalling the tube, oblong, subacute ; corona of 5 processes adnate to 

 the corolla-tube and alternate with its lobes, the a^jices of the processes 

 not prolonged above the sinus, the margins slightly thickened and densely 

 villous. JStaminal-column arising from the base of the corolla-tube ; 

 anther-tips acute ; pollen-masses erect, clavate, compressed, waxy, 

 attached by very short eaudicles to the pollen-carriers. Folhcles acu- 

 minate, 3 by 5-5 in. (Dalzell 6f Gibson). Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 236. Bidaria elegans, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 151. Gymnema tinrjens, var. 

 ovalifolia, Wight, Icon. t. 592. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Stocks !, Dalzell ! ; from the Jvonkan southwards, Talbot. — Disteib. 

 India (W. Penuisula). 



3. Gymnema pergularioides, Wicjht &• Gard. in Tim. Enum. 

 (1860) p. 198. A twining shrub ; branches lon.i;, slender, hairy. Leaves 

 membranous, 1-5 by |-2 in., elliptic or obiong-lanceolate, caudate- 

 acuminate, glabrous or slightly pubescent on both sides, pale beneath, 

 base rounded or acute ; petioles ^-^ in. long, slender. Flowers in um- 

 bellate globose cymes ; peduncles as long as the petioles ; pedicels short, 

 pubescent. Calyx divided to the base or nearly so ; segments -^ in. 

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

 the tube, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, spreading or recurved ; corona of 

 5 hairy somewhat obscure ridges on the corolla-tube, their tops not 

 reaching nearly to the sinus. Staminal-column arising from the base 

 of the corolla-tube ; anther-tips obtuse ; pollen-masses erect, oblong, 

 subsessile on the pollen-carriers. Style-apex exserted, conical, bifid. 

 Follicles not divaricate, 4|-6 in. long, cyhndric, tapering to a long beak, 

 pubescent at first, at length glabrate. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 32 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 3, p. 154 ; Woodr. in Jouru, Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 167. 

 — Flowers : Apr. 



S. M. Country: Havei-i, Woodrow. 



Woodrow, in bis list of Boitibay plants {I. c), gives this as occurring at Ilaveri in 

 the Dliarwar districts, but I have seen no specimens from the Bombay Presidency. 

 Trimen says the plant is endemic in Ceylon, where it is however not common, 



15. TYLOPHORA, E. Br. 



Twining (rarely erect) perennials. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence 

 lateral or axillary, usually consisting of slender simple or branched axes 

 with several flower-clusters or short racemes scattered along them, or 

 occasionally the flower-clusters are sessile at the nodes of the stem ; 

 flowers small. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, rotate or 

 rotate-Ciimpauulate ; lobes slightly overlapping to the right ; corona of 

 5 small fleshy tubercles adnate to or radiate from the filament part of 

 the staminal-column and arising from near its base. Staminal-column 



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