1G2 LXXXIIT. ASCLEPIADACE.E. 



arising from the base of the corolla ; anthers erect, small, with a mem- 

 branous appendage ; pollen-masses very minute, erect, suberect or 

 horizontal, attached by their middle or near their base to very slender 

 caudicles, by which they are affixed in pairs to the pollen-carriers. 

 Style-apex pentagonal or 5-lobed, depressed, flattened or convex, rarely 

 exceeding the anthers. Follicles smooth, acuminate, sometimes winged. 

 Seeds comose. — Distrib. Tropics of the Old World and Australia ; 

 species about 40. 



Stem suberect, less than 20 in. loug 1. T. fasciculata. 



Stem and branches long, twining. 



Calyx glabrous 2. T. tenuis. 



Calyx hirsute or pubescent. 



Corona wholly adnate to the staminal-column without free 

 points above. 



Leaves obtuse ; petioles i-} in. long; corolla J in. long. 3. T. rotundifolia. 

 Leaves acute or acuminate ; petioles ^ in. long ; corolla 



I in. long 4. T. Dahellii. 



Corona-apex free, the point reaching as high as the style- 

 apex 5. T. asthmatica. 



1. Tylophora fasciculata, Ilam. in Wight, Contrih. (1834) p. 50. 

 Stems several from the root, 12-18 in. long, erect, flexuous or slightly 

 twining amongst grass, pubescent. Leaves approximate, diminishing in 

 size upwai-ds, coriaceous, 1-2 by g-lj in., ovate or lanceolate, acute, 

 glabrous above, more or less pubescent on the nerves beneath, base 

 acute or rounded ; petioles ]-| in. loug. Flowers in lateral peduncled 

 umbellate or racemose cymes ; peduncles arising from between the 

 petioles; pedicels filiform, | in. long, pubescent; bracts lanceolate. 

 Calyx divided almost to the base ; segments ^ in. long, lanceolate, 

 acute. Corolla ^ in. long, deeply divided ; lobes ^ in. long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, veined ; corona of 5 broadly ovoid fleshy lobes radiating 

 from the staminal-column. Anther-appendages membranous, broad, 

 projecting above the 5-lobed style-apex ; pollen-masses minute, sub- 

 transverse. Follicles lg-2 by about ^ in., fusiform, acute, striate, 

 glabrous. Seeds \ in. long, broadly ovate, flat ; coma | in. long. FI. B. 

 I. V. 4, p. 40 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 151 ; AVight, Icon. t. 848 ; Trim. 

 Fl. Cevl. V. 3, p. 156 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Kat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 167"; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 206.— Flowers : July- 

 Aug. Vern. Bhindodi. 



KoNKAN : Laiv !, Dalzcll ^- Gibson ; Wandra, side of Tansa canal, Kanifkar ! 

 S. M. Country: hills north of Belgaum, liitchie, 1859!— Distrib. India (W. Penin- 

 sula, Nipal) ; Coylun. 



2. Tylophora tenuis, Blnme, Bijdr. (1826) p. 1062. A slender 

 twiner ; stems much-branched, slender, tough, glabrous. Leaves variable, 

 somewhat fleshy, |-l-2 by ^| in. (on the main stem sometimes reaching 

 2 by 1 in.), ovate or elliptic or oblong, obtuse or acute, often apiculate, 

 glabrous, base acute or rounded ; petioles i-^- in. long. Flowers lurid- 

 ])urple inside, in lateral panicnlate ^>]abrous cymes ; peduncles from 

 between the petioles, close to one of them ; pedicels filiform ; bracts 

 lanceolate-subulate. Calyx divided nearly to the base, glabrous ; seg- 

 ments 2^- in. long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla | in. across ; lobes J^ in. 

 long, ovate-oblong, subacute, glabrous, veined ; corona of 5 small dark- 

 colored tubercles adnate to the stan)inal-colamn. Pollen-masses sub- 



