i 86 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



11. DREGEA. 



D. volubilis (Roya viridiflora, D.). Large, bark light grey, 

 leaves oval or cordate, flowers in drooping umbels, green, fleshy, 

 follicles 3 to 5 inches long, seeds with delicate silky tufts. 

 Hirandori, dmbri. 



Common in hedges. Perhaps the commonest twiner of the order 

 except Dgeruia. It is a rather remarkable-looking plant, and has 

 no smell, and not milky, but watery juice. 



12. HOYA. 



H. Wightii (H. pallida, D.). A climbing parasite, leaves 



oval acute, dead-looking, flowers in umbels white or cream 



coloured, pretty, follicles 4 inches long, slender, straight. Amri, 

 dudhvel. 



Mahableshwar and elsewhere, pretty common. Very like the 

 well-known wax plant (H. carnosa), but paler in colour. 



* H. retusa, parasitic, very slender, leaves very narrow at the base, 

 gradually dilating to a broad tip, flowers few together, white, shining, 

 corona pink. Dandelly jungles (D.) Matheran, Birdwood ; he calls it 

 " Golden fringe " and dhdkti dm bri. 



* H. pendula, a stout climber, leaves ovate, flowers white, drooping, 

 corolla lobes silky. S. Konkan (c/.) Very imperfectly known. 



13. LEPTADENIA. 



L. reticulata. More or less hairy, lower parts woody with 

 corky bark, upper pale green, leaves flat oval, flowers yellow- 

 ish in stalked umbels, petals much bearded and folded back at 

 the edges, anthers free on the dark corona, follicles plantain- 

 shaped. Raidori, sliinguti, Tcharkodi. 



Common : often growing on milkbush. 



* L. spartium (L. Jacquemontii, D.). An erect much-branched shrub, 

 leaves narrow linear, flowers yellow in short-stalked umbels, follicles 

 slender, beaked. Kip. Seashore S. of Gogo, and Sind (D.). 



14. CEROPEGIA. 



Of this genus, which differs very much in the shape of the flowers 

 from anything else in the order, H. gives 36 species, and ascribes 9 

 of them to W. India, having reduced D.'s 11 to 6, and added 3. I 

 have seen only one of these wild, but it seems that all the species, 

 except C. odoruta, have the corolla of the same peculiar form and 

 colouring, viz., a long tube much swollen at the base, the lobes 

 combined and " representing the head of a snake with green snout 

 and eyelike spots." (Botanical Magazine.) 



1. C. oculata. Leaves ovate acuminate, rather hairy, flowers 

 4 to 6 on a peduncle, hairy, 2 or 3 inches long, corolla lobes 

 lanceolate, follicles stiff, tapering, 4 or 5 inches long. 



