60 ASCLEPIABACEM. [Tylophori. 



Calyx i in. long, pubescent; segments subulate, margins ciliate. 

 Cerblla°% in. long, divided more than half-way down ; lobes linear, 

 obtuse, glabrous. Corona-scales linear, each with a long beaked process 

 projecting from the inner edge. Follicles 3-4 in. long, tapering to a blunt 

 point from rather a turgid base, longitudinally ribbed, glabrous. Seeds 

 § in. long, flat, ovate, broadly margined, pale-brown, glabrous. 



Dehra Dun, Moradabad, N. Oudh, Agra, Bundelkhand and Merwara. 

 Flowers May- July. Distbjb. : Trop. Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. from 

 3Iurree eastwards to Sikkim and southwards to Bombay and C. India, 

 also in Burma. 



P. m inor, Andr. is cultivated in Indian gardens, and is found wild on 

 'the Himalaya as far west as Jaunsar. It is also a native of China. It 

 is sometimes known as the " West Coast " or " Primrose Creeper". 



14. TYLOPHORA, R. Br., PI. Brit. Ind. iv, 39. 



Twining (rarely erect) herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers small, arranged in simple or branched lateral or axillary 

 umlelliform racemose or fascicled cymes. Calyx 5-partite, lobes ovate 

 or lanceolate. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-fid. ; lobes broad, slightly 

 overlapping to the right. Corona of five fleshy tubercles, adnate 

 wholly or in part to the very short staminal-column. Anthers very 

 small, with a membranous iu flexed appendage ; pollen-masses minute, 

 one in each cell globose or ovoid, waxy, erect or ascending, rarely 

 horizontal ; caudicles very slender. Stigma disciform, 5-gonal, 

 usually included. Follicles acuminate, smooth, occasionally winged. 

 Seeds comose. — Species about 40, in the tropical and subtropical 

 regions of Asia, Africa and Australia. 



Stems short, erect or subscandent, puberulous 



above 1. T.fasciculata, 



Stems long and twining : — 

 Calyx glabrous, coronal processes gibbous . 2. T. himalaicz. 

 Calyx hairy : — 



Corona wholly adnate to the staminal 

 column and without free points : — 

 Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cymes 



few-flowered . . . .3. T.hirsuta. 



Leaves orbicular or broadly ovate, 



cymes many flowered . . 4. T. rotundifolia. 



Tips of corona-scales free . . . 5. T. tenerrima, 



1 . T. fasciculata, Buch.-Ham. in Wight Contrib. 50 ; F. B. I. iv, 40 ; 

 IVatt E.D. ; CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 162. 



Boot-fibres stout, cord-like. Stems several from the root, 12-18 in. higk, 

 erect flexuous or subscandent, finely puberulous upwards. Leavts 

 petioled, thinly coriaceous, approximate in pairs, diminishing in size 



