90. A8CLEPIBACEM. [17. Marsdbnia. 



16. TELOSMA, Coville. (Pergularia, F.B.I.) 



Suffruticose twiners with rather large greenish or yellow flowers 

 in snb-umbelliform cymes. Corolla salver-shaped with tube swollen 

 at the base, lobes oblong or linear, overlapping to the right. Column 

 rather large. Corona staminal, processes adnate to the back of the 

 anthers, erect, laterally or dorsally flattened, 2-lamellate (in our 

 species), the inner lamella or ligule overlapping the membranous 

 tip of the anther and the stigma. PoUinia 1 in each cell, subterete 

 clavate or globosely obovoid, waxy, erect. Stigma umbonate or 

 capitate. Follicles lanceolate, terete, rather turgid. 



1. T. pallida, Craih. Syn. Pergularia pallida, W. Sf A. ; Kongat, 

 Kharw., S. 

 A twining shrub with sub-wateiy juice, ovate acuminate often 

 slender- petioled leaves 2-4-5" long, thinly pubescent beneath when 

 young, and greenish or yellowish-white flowers -TS-l" diam. in 

 axillary umbelliform cymes. Follicles usually solitary about 3-4" 

 long by "9" wide about the middle, rather suddenly acuminate, 

 deeply grooved on one side. 



Palamavi ! Santal Parganas ! Chiefly in nalas and scrub- jungles. Fl. May. 

 Ft. Nov. -Jan. Renews leaves at the time of flowering. 



Stems brown, branches pale, somewhat furrowed and pustular, young with a 

 short curly pubescence. Leaves sometimes caudate, with obtuse or sub-cordate 

 base, when old often deeply cordate with nerves beneath shortly pubescent or 

 glabrous, sec. n. 4-5 including 1-2 from or from near the base, slender. Petioles 

 often only "o" at time of flowering, attaining I-1'5". Calyx •2--25" long, segments 

 oblong-lanceolate. Corolla-tube •25-*35" long, lobes S-'o" glabrous. Inner ligule 

 of coronal processes narrower than the elliptic sometimes apiculate outer but 

 exceeding it, outer not as long as the anthers. Follicles poniard-shaped very 

 smooth with a thin shell, not wrinkled when dry, thickest about the middle. 



17. MARSDENIA, Br. 



(Excluding Dregea.) 



Twining rarely erect, shrubby or suffruticose with annual shoots 

 from a perennial stock. Flowers mod.-sized or rather small, in 

 umbellate cymes or clustered on the branches of a cymose cyme or 

 panicle. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla campanulate, urceolate or sub- 

 campanulate with spreading lobes. Corona single or double, corolline 

 of thickened calli and a villous ring in the throat or 0, staminal of 5 

 appendages, fleshy often inversely V-shaped below, flattened subulate 

 or cuspidate and membranous above with erect tips incumbent on the 

 anther, or exceeding it and meeting over the top of the stigma, rarely 

 obsolete. Column short. Anthers with membranous tips, pollinia 1 

 in each cell erect waxy narrowly clavate on slender pedicels. Stigma 

 convex or elongated. Follicles lanceolate or poniard-sliaped. 



Dreffeaytras included in Margcleiiia by iV. E. £ row u, and that arrangement was 

 followed by Cooke in the Flora of Bombay and bj" me in the Central Provinces List. 

 The two genera are however verj- distinct in our area, and I have therefore again 

 separated Dregea. 



Large climber. Fls. "S" long, eorolla tomentose . . . . \. tenacissima. 

 Scarcely scandent. Fls. '18" long. Corolla glabrous without . 2. Hamiltonii, 



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