90. ASCLEPIDACE^. [19. Tylophora. 



staminal, with fleshy spreading depressed lobes and a minute inner 

 cusp incumbent on the anthers. Column very short fleshy, anther 

 tips short inflexed. Pollinia 1 in each cell, narrow-oblong, erect, 

 waxy, sessile or subsessile. Stigma conical or dome-shaped. Follicles 

 thick hard, often ribbed when dry. 



1. D. YOlubilis, Benth. Syn. Marsdenia volubilis, Cooke; Marang 

 Kongat, S., K. 



A stout twiner with stems attaining 1" diam. with somewhat 

 corky and reticulate bark and pale iisually pustular or very lenticel- 

 late branches. Leaves 2*5-7" long, ovate or broadly ovate acuminate, 

 base cordate or rounded, sometimes even acute on some upper leaves, 

 usually hoary with a fine curled pubescence. Flowers green b-'Q" 

 diam. nearly glabrous in dense drooping umbels l'5-2" diam., which 

 are sometimes several together on short branches and with peduncles 

 1-3" long. Follicles solita.ry or usually paired and divaricate, 3-4" 

 long and 1-1 "S" thick, tapering from base or slightly bottle-shaped, 

 with very blunt rounded apex, wrinkled or ribbed when dry. 



Chiefly in scrub jungles. Singbhum ! Manbhum ! Palamau ! Fl. Maj^-June. 

 Fr. Dec.-Feb. 



Leaves never densely tomentose as in Marsdenia tenacisnma and quite glabrescent 

 above, strongly nerved, usually glandular at base of midrib above, sec. n. arcuate, 

 2-4., of which all but one are frequently close to and 1-2 at the base. Pedicels 

 •5-1" long very slender in flower, woody in fruit. Calyx segments spreading, 

 lanceolate, "12" long. Corolla becomes yellowish and with lobes erect in age, 

 lobes oblong or ovate very obtuse. Corona fleshy shining green, processes gibbous 

 with a short beak towards the stigma. Seeds obovoid, '47" by '3", margined or 

 narrowly winged, coma 1-2-1 -8". 



The juice is more or less milky but not nearly as much so as in Marsdenia. 

 Fibre strong. Rind of unripe fruit used as a vegetable. 



19. TYLOPHORA, Br. 



Twining rarely erect or prostrate herbs, or suffruticose, Avith small 

 or minute flowers in umbelliform or racemiform cymes. Sepals free 

 or nearly so. Corolla rotate with broad lobes slightly overlapping to 

 the right. Corona staminal, processes fleshy, depressed or swollen, 

 produced down to the corolla base, often free above. Column very 

 short. Anther-tips inflexed membranovis. Pollinia 1 in each cell, 

 minute globose or ovoid, waxy, erect or ascending or rarely trans- 

 verse or pendulous from the ascending pedicel. Stigma disciform, 

 5-angled. Follicles acuminate usually slender or poniard- shaped. 

 Seeds ovoid flat, winged. 



Stems suberect with slender or twining tips . . . .1. fasciculata. 

 Stems twining : — 



Usually hairy. Corona with free apical tips . . . .2. asfkamatica. 



Glabrous. Corona without free tips .3. longifolia. 



Stems quite prostrate. Cymes hairy 4. roiundifolia. 



1. T. fasciculata, Ham. 



Suberect slender 2-3 ft. high with several stems from a short stock 

 furnished with numerovis rather thick roots, sometimes shortly 

 twining. L. l'5-2'' lanceolate or somewhat ovate, acute or somewhat 

 acuminate, glabrous or puberulous. Fls. •17-2" diam. shortly race- 

 mose or umbelliform on the branches of a slender pubescent panicle 



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