Plants of the Punjab, 588 
CuimBING PLANTs witH Opposits Exstiputate SimpuE Leavezs, 
Holostemma 
Rheedei, 
ASCLEPIADACER. 
BBs 21: 
Himalaya, 
3-5,000 ft., 
east of the Sutlej. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Cynanchum 
Dalhousie, 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
SB. live. 25. 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
5-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Cynanchum 
auriculatum, 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
| aes Aad De ea 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Mashobra, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Murree (Douie). 
The Glen, Simla. 
Marsdenia Roylei, 
Murkula, tar, 
kurang. 
ASCLEPIADACEA., 
PS Be ive 35. 
Himalaya, 
3-7,000 ft., 
east of the Sutlej. 
Simla, Jaku, 
Annandale. 
(Collett), 
PETALS UNITED. 
perennial, smooth, twining, juice milky ; leaves 24-4 
by 13-8 in., ovate, short-or long-pointed, base deeply 
notched, long-stalked, nerves red ; flowers 1-11 in. diam., 
purple, outer surface silvery white in axillary umbel-like 
few-flowered clusters, main stalks 1-2 in. long, minor 
stalks as long, calyx 5-partite, lobes not glandular, corolla 
cup-shaped, tube very short, lobes 5, broad, short-pointed, 
thick, overlapping to the right, a 10-lobed fleshy ring 
united to and round the staminal tube, anthers large, 
oblong, horny, shining, united in a 10-winged column, 
pollen masses waxy, stigma 5-angled ; follicles 6 by 14 
in., smooth, short, thick, spindle-shaped, green, seeds with 
a tuft of hairs. 
perennial, twining, smooth except for a line of hairg 
running between the joints ; leaves 8-7 by 4-1 in., linear- 
lanceolate, long-pointed, deeply notched at the base, stalk 
3-z In.; flowers § in. diam., pale green in almost sessile 
smooth umbels, calyx 5-partite, lobes ovate, corolla tube 
very short, smooth, lobes 5, reflexed, a bell-shaped ring of 
10 teeth nearly equal to the corolla with 10 small scales 
within near the base, staminal tube 10-winged, anther 
tips small, inflexed, pollen masses waxy, stigma 5-angled ; 
follicles 2-4 in., slender, tapering, smooth, seeds with a tuft 
of hairs. 
like the last species, but leaf stalks with a pair of leaf- 
like appendages, flowers long-stalked, corolla velvety 
within, yellow-greenish, the ring within the corolla is much 
smaller, 5-teeth and 5 scales instead of 10. 
perennial, twining, woody, softly felted, juice milky ; 
leaves 3-5 by 14-3 in., ovate-lanceolate, notched at the 
base, long-pointed, often velvety beneath, stalks 14-2 in. ; 
flowers $ in. diam., orange, collected densely in axillary 
umbel-like clusters, calyx-5 partite, about half ag long as 
the corolla, hairy, corolla almost bell-shaped, fleshy, tube 
short, lobes 5, velvety within, hairy without, spreading 
throat smooth or hairy, 5 scales at the base of the staminal 
tube, flat, linear, erect, much longer than the tube, 
tips free, leaning towards each other, anther tips inflexed, 
pollen masses waxy ; follicles 3 by 1 in., thick, straight, 
