Plants of the Punjab. 585 
CiuimBine PLants witH Opposite Exstiputate Simpue Leaves. 
Hoya longifolia, 
ASOLEPIADACE. 
BP. Bi T, iv; 56: 
Himalaya, 
1-4,500 ft., 
east of the Sutlej, 
Valley below Chota 
Simla (Collett). 
Leptadenia 
reticulata, 
ASCLEPIADACEA. 
BO Bel iv 63: 
The Plains, 
east of the Sutlej. 
Ambala(Edgeworth). 
Ceropegia bulbosa, 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
Bt Ae tv. 67. 
The Plains. 
Multan (Aitchison). 
Thunbergia fragrans, 
ACANTHACE. 
FS Be 1ve390: 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Cultivated. 
PETALS UNITED, 
perennial, smooth, stems climbing over trees and 
rocks, rooting, branches hanging down; leaves 2-6 by 
2-1 in., narrowly-lanceclate, short-pointed, fleshy, stalks 
z-1 in., very stout ; flowers #-1 in. diam., white waxy tinged 
with pink, in axillary shortly stalked umbel-like clusters, 
stalks 2 in. long, calyx 5-partite, lobe ovate, smooth, 
corolla 5-lobed, lobes triangular, tube very short, scales 
thick, jomed to the staminal tube, flat spreading in a star- 
shape, inner angle produced in a short point, back round, 
other characters like the last species; follicles 4-6 in, 
straight slender, seeds $ in., lanceolate, tufted with long 
hairs. 
perennial, twining, leafy, bark corky, young part 
grey-felted ; leaves 1-2 in., ovate-heart-shaped or narrowed 
at both ends, short-pointed, leathery, pale, stalks 3-4 in. ; 
flowers 4 in. diam., thick, velvety, in crowded axillary 
umbel-like grey clusters, which are solitary or in pairs, 3-1 
in. diam., calyx shortly 5-lobed, top-shaped, lobes blunt, 
corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, tips keeled on the face, tube 
smooth, shining from the scales which are continued half 
way down the lobes ; follicles 24-3 by 4-3 in., thick, 
straight, smooth, almost woody, beak thick, curved, seeds 
+ in. long, narrowly ovoid, winged, flat, with a tuft of hairs. 
perennial, root tuberous, stem very slender, twining ; 
leaves various, 1-5 by 4-1 in., linear-lanceolate, stalked 
or almost sessile, always fleshy ; flowers 3-1 in., greenish, 
in 3-5-flowered axillary umbel-like clusters on stalks 4-1 
in. long, calyx 5-partite, lobes 4, in. long, narrow, corolla 
straight, narrow, mouth slightly dilated, 5-angled, lobes 5, 
4-$ in., linear from a triangular base, hairy within, tube 
purple within, slender ; follicles 4in. long, slender, cylin- 
dric, seeds 4 in. long, linear-oblong, winged, tufted. 
perennial, climbing, stems slender, hairy or smooth ; 
leaves 2-3 by 4-14 in., ovate, or oblong, short-pointed, 
base notched deeply, or forked, toothed, stalk 4-14 in. ; 
flowers 1} in., white, fragrant or not, axillary, one, rarely 
two, in an axil, stalks 1-3 in., bracts leaf-like at the base 
of the stalk, bracteoles ? in., oblong, calyx } in. enlarging 
in fruit to 4, divided into 12-16 long-lanceolate teeth, hardly 
longer than the tube, corolla 5-lobed, lobes rounded, tube 
curved, dilated, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, near the 
bottom of the tube, style funnel-shaped, 2-lipped ; capsule 
2-1 in., smooth, shining, round, abruptly narrowed into a 
