Srackylepis."] xcv. ASCLEPIADE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



4. BRACHYLEPIS, Wight $ Am. 



A pubescent or tomentose twining shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, 

 villous, in terminal or axillary dichotomous cymes. Sepals ovate, glandular 

 within. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft ; lobes short, overlapping and twisted to the 

 right. Coronal scales ~>? Ji^ a( ^ membranous, close to the stamens. Anthers 

 sessile, cohering in a fl<9Hpug; tips acute conniving ; pollen-masses in pairs 

 in each cell, granular ; T^pendages of the corpuscles orbicular. Stigma 6- 

 angled, top flat. Follicles divaricate, acuminate, thick, smooth. 



B. nervosa, Wight $ Am. Contrib. 64 ; Wight Ic. t. 1284 ; Dene, in DC. 

 P)'odr. viii. 405 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 56. Tylophora sp., Miguel in PI. Hohen. 

 n. 1389. ^Mk 



NILG KERRY Mrs., alt. -"'-<^^ft., common, Wight, &c. 



Leaves 3-4 by 1-2 ;:>..,V#rptic or ovate, acuminate, base acute or rounded, 

 coriaceous, glabrous and gloBy above ; nerves 8-10 pairs, spreading and arched; 

 petiole stout, ^ ip. Cymes villous, peduncles and pedicels short, stout; bracts 

 persistent ; bracteoles numerous, imbricate. Corolla in. diam., green outside, 

 purple within, lobes ovate. Follicles not seen. 



5. UTLERIA, Beddome. 



tree. Leaves scattered, narrow, subcrenulate. Flowers minute, 

 ends of the long branches of terminal peduncled dichotomous 

 cymes. Sepals rqunded, glandular within. Corolla subrotate, 5-cleft, lobes 

 overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales 5, small, opposite and 

 close to the stamens. Filaments short ; anthers ovate, conniving over and adnate 

 to the stigma ; pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular ; appendages of the 

 corpuscles dilated. Stigma convex. Fruit unknown. 



17. salicifolia, Beddome mss. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Anamallay Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



Branches stout. Leave* crowded at the ends of the branches, 7-9 by -1 in., 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, margin thickened waved or crenulate, 

 base very acute ; nerves many, very slender, nearly horizontal, reticulations fine ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. Cymes 4-6 in., sparingly branched ; bracts on the terminal branches 

 numerous, imbricate, obtuse ; pedicels short. Corolla -^ in. diam., lobes ovate, acute. 



6 FIN I, AYS ONI A, Wall. 



A lofty glabrous climber. Leaves opposite. Flowers in 2-3-chotomous 

 axillary cymes, yellowish and purple. Sepals rounded, short. Corolla rotate, 

 5-cleft ; lobes ovate, overlapping to the right. Coronal scales 5, close to the 

 stamens, filiform. Stamens on the throat of the corolla, filaments slender ; 

 anthers adnate by the middle to the stigma, beardless, tip membranous inflexed 

 acute. Pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular ; tips of the corpuscles 

 slightly dilated. Stigma 5-angled, top flat. Follicles divaricate, turgid, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, 1-3 winged, tip with a revolute beak. Seeds margined 

 with soft retrorse hairs. 



F. obovata, Wall. PL As. Ear. Li. 48, t. 162, and Cat. 44Gf3 : Wight # 



Am. Contrib. 65 ; Wight III. t. 182, f. : Griff. Notul. iv. 70, and Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t. 407; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 4li. Gurua obovata, Ham. in \\>igt Hort. 

 Sub. Calc. 544. 



