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Deccan : Mabableshwar, CooJce ! ; Mawal near Poona, Woodrow ! ; Kadakvasla, 

 Cookc\ S. M. Country: Belgaum and Padsliapur, liUchic, 437 !— Distrib. India 

 (Bengal, Assam, W. Peninsula) ; Cejlon, Java. 



3. Marsdenia lanceolata, T. Cooke. Suberect or climbing ; old 

 steins with pale bark, glabrous or nearly so ; young branches terete, 

 thinly tomeutose. Leaves 2-2| by ^-| in., lanceolate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, glabrous or slightly velvety-pubescent above, glabrous and reti- 

 culately veined beneath, base acute ; petioles ^ in. long, Flowers green, 

 in rather small lateral globose cymes ; peduncles i-| in. long, arising 

 between the petioles and near to one of them ; pedicels \-^ in. long, 

 slender. Calyx glabrous, divided to the base; sepals jL-i in. loug, 

 oblong, obtuse. Corolla divided i-ather more than g-way down ; lobes 

 ^-i in. long, broadly oblong, obtuse, overlapping to the right ; corona- 

 lobes large, fleshy, rounded at the top, the apiculation on the inner 

 edge very small. Anther-tips membranous, obtuse ; pollen-masses erect, 

 oblong, attached to the pollen-carriers by short caudicles. Style-apex 

 dome-shaped, not exserted beyond the anthers. Follicles not seen. 

 Dregea voluhilis var. angusiifolia, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 47. — Mowers: 

 July-Aug. 



The entirely different leaves, short petioles and peduncles, and the 

 different flowering period are I think sufficiently distinctive characters 

 to separate this from M. voluhilis. 



Dalzell in Herb. Kew. without, locality ! Deccan : Lobagaon 11 miles S.E. of 

 Poona, Bhival — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



18. COSMOSTIGMA, Wight. 



A twining glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, greenish, 

 in racemose axillary or lateral cymes. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla sub- 

 rotate, deeply 5-fid ; lobes valvate or slightly overlapping to the right ; 

 corona of 5 erect broad membranous truncate or 2-tid scales adnate to 

 the base of the anthers and shorter than them. Stamiual-column very 

 short ; anthers appendiculate with a rounded indexed membrane ; pollen- 

 masses 1 in each anther-cell, erect, attached to the pollen-carriers by 

 long basal caudicles. IStyle-apex broad, 5-gonous, with a distinct rim 

 and slightly umbonate centre. Follicles large, ovoid-oblong, bluntly 

 pointed, smooth. Seeds comose. — Distkib. India, Ceylon, Java ; 

 species 1. 



1. Cosmostigma racemosum, Wight, Contrib. (1834) p. 42. A 

 shrubby twiner ; stems stout, terete, usually quite glabrous. Leaves 

 deciduous, 3-5 by 2-3 in., ovate, acute or acuminate, glabrous, base 

 cordate; petioles |-lg in. long. Flowers small, greenish, in axillary 

 or sublateral cymes which are at first corymbose, at length racemose ; 

 peduncles equalling or exceeding the petioles, arising either from the 

 leaf-axils or just outside them ; pedicels |-g in. long ; bracts 0. Calyx 

 divided almost to the base, glabrous ; segments -^j in. long, broadly 

 oblong, rounded at the apex and with membranous ciliate margins. 

 Corolla ^ in. long ; lobes § in. long, ovate-obloug, obtuse, fleshy, speckled 

 with brown dots ; corona of 5 usually 2-fid broad membranous erect 

 scales. Staminal-column arising from near the base of the corolla ; 

 pollen-masses clavate, slightly curved, erect, waxy, attached to the 



