Plants of the Punjab. 581 
CuimBInc PLaANnts witH Opposite ExstrpuLATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Iechnocarpus 
frutescens, 
APOCYNACES. 
F. B. I. i. 669, 
The Plains to 
2,000 ft., 
east of the Sutlej. 
Sirmur 
Hathni Khund. 
Cryptolepis 
Buchanani, 
Karanta. 
ASCLEPIADACE. 
BS Bile iy, Oy 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Giri Valley 
(Collett). 
Lahore. 
Cryptostegia 
grandiflora, 
ASCLEPIADACEA, 
Poe Bs ive 6. 
The Plains, widely 
found as an escape, 
also cultivated. 
PETALS UNITED, 
perennial, woody, a closely, clinging climber, smooth, 
or branches and lower surface of leaves softly felted ; 
leaves 2-3 by 3-14 in., narrowed at both ends, oblong or 
lanceolate ; flowers very small, white or whitish purple, in 
axillary and terminal rusty velvety racemes, 1-3 in. long, 
calyx 5-fid, 8 in., lobes ovate, blunt, corolla } in. diam., 
twice as long as the calyx, salver-shaped, mouth and 
margins hairy, lobes narrowed to the long point, overlap- 
ping to the right, stamens at or below the middle of the 
tube; otherwise like the last species ; follicles 3-6 by § in., 
very slender, curved, widely spreading, seeds 4 in., not 
beaked, tuft of white hairs. 
perennial, smooth, twining, juice milky; leaves 3-6 
by 1-24 in. oblong or narrowed to both ends, leathery, shin- 
ing above, stalk 4 in. ; flowers 2 in. diam., yellow, in very 
loose, slender, short, many-flowered, axillary, branching 
racemes, calyx small, 5-lobed with 5 scales within, lobes 
short, sharp-pointed, corolla tube very short, lobes 5, 
lanceolate, scales 5, club-shaped at the top of the corolla 
tube closing its mouth, stamens 5, at the bottom of the 
tube, bases broad, united to the stigma, anther tips long, 
meeting over it, pollen glandular joined in masses in pairs 
in each anther cell, stigma conical ; follicles 2-4 in., straight, 
stiff, 4-2 in. diam.,in the middle, gradually narrowed, 
smooth, separating, seeds } in. long, oblong-ovate, tuft 
of hairs 1 in. long. 
perennial, woody, stout, smooth, juice milky, the 
latex contains much good rubber, but it is separated from 
the other constituents with difficulty ; leaves 3-4 by 13-2 in., 
narrowed to both ends, blunt, leathery, shinmg above, 
stalks 4-2 in. ; flowers 14 in. long, 2 in. diam., white . nged 
with pinkish purple, in terminal 3-branched short spr ading 
clusters, bracts soon falling off, calyx 5-partite, lcbes 3-3 
in. long, lanceolate, corolla funnel-shaped, tube short, 
throat bell-shaped, lobes 5, broad, overlapping and twisted 
to the left, short-pointed, scales 5 at the base of the throat, 
clefi into thread-like segments, stamens and anthers 
as in the last species, stigma convex ; follicles 4-5 by 1-1} 
in.; straight, thick, woody, widely separating,- thickest 
at the base, seeds } in. long, ob!ong-ovate, flattened, tnft 
of hairs 14 in. long, very fine. 
