Plants of the Punjab. 155 
Herss, EReot, with Opposite ExstipuuATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Cynanchum 
glaucum, 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
He Be [ive 22. 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra 
(Collett). 
Cynanchum 
Arnottianum, 
ASCLEPIADACHA. 
Hi By Beav. 22. 
Kashmir, 6-8,000 ft. 
Dunglagalli (Douie). 
Cynanchum 
Jacquemontianum, 
ASCLEPIADACHAI. 
Ha Be live 26: 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan 
(Boissier), 
Ceropegia Wallichil, 
AsSOLHPIADACH™®, 
oie ive O1. 
‘Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Simla, Prospect and 
Elysium Hills, Shali 
(Collett), 
Luar Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
medium size, perennial, woolly or velvety, pale or 
with a bluish-green waxy gloss, juice milky ; leaves 1-3 
by 13-23 in., ovate, oblong or lanceolate: leathery, short- or 
long-pointed, stalk 3-3 in. long; flowers.4 in. diam., 
yellow, in nearly sessile velvety umbelled clusters, calyx 
segments 5, corolla lobes 5, hairy within, coronal lobes 
5, rounded, broad, fleshy, stamens, ete., as in the last 
species ; follicles 2-4 in., slender, seeds }-4 in. long, broadly 
ovoid, concave on one side, convex on the other, crowned 
with a bunch of fine hairs. 
very like the last species, but sometimes with the 
leaves in circles, and the corolla smaller and dark pur- 
ple. 
small to medium size, perennial, smooth, branches 
many, slender, from a woody stock, juice milky, leaves 
1-14 by 4-% in., small, lanceolate, from a broad heart- 
shaped base, finely long-pointed, stalk }-2 in., flowers 
z-4 in. diam., many, in level clusters on stalks longer than 
the leaves, calyx segments ovate, corolla velvety within, 
corona equal to the corolla, 5-fid, lobes finely lanceolate, 
simple or divided with a small flat process below ; other- 
wise like the last species. 
small, velvety, stem 4 in. diam.; leaves 2-24 in., 
ovate or rounded, nearly sessile, tip blunt, short-pointed 
or rounded ; flowers $+1 in. long, dark red purple, in crowded 
stalked clusters on a very short axillary main stalk, bracts 
bristly, calyx segments 5, narrow, } in. long, thread-like, 
corolla, tube narrow, base swollen, mouth funnel-shaped, 
sharply 5-angled, lobes 4 in. long, erect, narrow, tips 
joining, within it 10 coronal scales, in 2 series, outer united 
in a short 10-lobed cup joined to the staminal tube, inner 
longer, linear, erect, ununited, stamens 5, united into a 
very short tube, anther tips blunt ; follicles smooth, taper- 
ing, 24 in., long-pointed, sceds crowned with a bunch of 
hairs. ae 
