Lxxxiii. asclepiadace.t:. 1G3 



erect, minute. Style-apex pentagonal, slightly convex. Follicles 2-,3 in. 

 long, lanceolate, tapering to both ends, finely pointed, finely striate, 

 glabrous. Seeds j in. long, ovate-oblong ; coma | in. long. ~F\. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 42 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 158. TijJoplwra carnosa, Wall, in 

 Wight, Contrib. p. 49; Wight, Icon, t. 351 {not of Dak. & Gibs.). 

 T. tenuissima, Wight & Arn, in Wight, Contrib, p, 49 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 588 ; Dalz, & G-ibs, p, 150, 



This is given in Dalzell & Gibson's Bombay Flora {l. c), but no locality has been 

 assigned to it. 



I have seen no specimens from the Bombay Presidency. There are none in Herb. 

 Kew., and Woodrow does not include the plant in his list of Bombay plants. 



3, Tylophora rotundifolia, Ham. in Wight, Contrib. (1834) p, 50, 

 A twining perennial ; stems shortly pubescent. Leaves Ij-^l by 1-2 in,, 

 coriaceous, broadly ovate, oblong or suborbicular, rounded and often 

 mucronate at the apex, glabrous above, more or less pubescent beneath 

 and with ciliolate margins, base subcordate, rounded or truncate ; 

 petioles g-J in. long. Flowers in many-fiowered umbellate cymes ; 

 peduncles from between the petioles, pubescent, shorter than the leaves 

 (sometimes almost 0), bearing at the apex several filiform pubescent 

 pedicels 4-1 in. long ; bracts long, lanceolate-subulate. Calyx hairy 

 outside, divided nearly to the base ; segments i in. long, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acute, ciliate. Corolla i in. long, glabrous ; lobes i in. long, 

 elliptic, obtuse, veined ; corona of 5 fleshy rounded lobes wholly adnate 

 to the staminal-column. Anther-appendages short, membranous ; pollen- 

 masses minute. Style-apex pentagonal, not exserted beyond the anther- 

 tips. Follicles not seen. Fl. B. I, v. 4, p, 43 ; Woodr. in Journ, Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 167. 



Konkan: Lawl, Stocks] S. M. Country: Londa, Woodrorx). — Distrib. India 

 (Oude, Assam, W. Peninsula). 



4. Tylophora Dalzellii, ffool: f. FL B. I. v. 4 (1883) p. 43. A 

 twining perennial ; stems slender, terete, glabrous or the young ones 

 pubescent. Leaves 2-4| by 1-2| in., ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, 

 often mucronate, glabrous or nearly so, base rounded or cordate ; petioles 

 2 in. long. Flowers in sessile or pedunculate lateral cymes or with 

 umbels or racemes at the flexures of a somewhat zigzag rhachis, which 

 is hispid or with a number of linear-lanceolate bracts at the insertion of 

 the pedicels ; peduncles from between the petioles ; pedicels |-1 in, 

 long, filiform, glabrous. Calyx hispid outside, divided almost to the 

 base ; segments J^ in. long, lineax'-lanceolate, acute. Corolla ^ in. long; 

 lobes -f§ in, long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, veined ; corona of 5 dark- 

 colored processes, rounded at the base and sloping a little upward 

 towards the top of the staminal-column, wholly adnate to the column; 

 pollen-masses minute. Follicles 3-4 in, long, tapering to a fine point 

 at the apex, scarcely tapering towards the base, finely striate, glabrous. 

 Seeds ^ in. long, ovate-oblong, flattened ; coma f in. long. Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 12 (1898) p, 167. Ti/Iojjhora carnosa, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 150 (not of Wight). — Flowers : Aug. 



Konkan : Siocks !, Law ! ; Vingorla, Stocks I, Ritchie, 1858 ! ; W. Ghats, KanitJcar ! 

 Deccan : Mahableshwar, Cooke ! — Distbib, India (W. Peninsula). 



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