14 xcv. ASCLEPIADE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Toxocarpus. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Chaumtissoore, Falconer. ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., Jen- 

 kins, Griffith, H.f. $ T. &c. 



Leaves 3-5 by 1^-3 in., quite glabrous when old, base acute or rounded, petiole 

 -f in. Corolla ^ in. diam. ; lobes membranous, slender, villous at the base within. 

 Follicles 4-6 by ^-f in., young rusty-pubescent. Seeds ovate, beaked, f in. long. 

 The only Himalayan specimen is Falconer's, and probably from Garwhal. 



ft Corolla-segments glabrous throughout. 



4. T. Roxburgh!!, W. $ A. Contrib. 61 ; stem cymes and calyx sparsely 

 hirsute, leaves broadly elliptic cuspidate membranous glabrous base subacute, 

 cymes spreading much shorter than the leaves, flowers few sessile, coronal 

 scales acute hardly overtopping the anther-cells, stigma fusiform. Wight Ic. t. 

 475; Wall. Cat. 8239; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 505; Asclepias longistigma, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 46. 



THK CIRCARS, Heyne ; Roxburgh. 



Leaves 1\ 3 by l-2 in., midrib sparsely puberulous beneath; petiole ^-^ in. and 

 nerves very slender. Cymes shortly peduncled ; flowers solitary or clustered, \ in. 

 diam. ; bracts very minute. I am in doubt about this plant, for which Wight cites 

 n. 1561 as his catalogue number, for the solitary specimen in his "Herbarium" has 

 no number, locality, or collector's name attached. Good specimens are however in 

 Rottler's " Herbarium," sent by Heyne as Echites dickotoma, Herb. Heyne (not the 

 plant published under that name), and in Wallich's also from Heyne. Roxburgh 

 gives no locality for it in his ''Flora," but Wight gives the Circars on Roxburgh's 

 authority. The flowers in his (Roxburgh's) drawing are twice as large as in the 

 specimens. Wight and Arnott and Decaisne describe the corolla-throat as hirsute, 

 which is perfectly glabrous in Roxburgh's drawing and in the specimens ; and the 

 cymes as longer than the leaves, whereas they are much shorter. As a species it is 

 very near T. Kleinii, but is a much more slender less villous plant, with very short 

 coronal scales. 



5. T. Klein!!, Wight fy Am. Contrib. 61 ; leaves from elliptic-ovate or 

 obovate or lanceolate to* orbicular acuminate or cuspidate glabrous or pubescent 

 beneath bise acute, cymes spreading and calyx densely tomentose, flowers few 

 sessile and pedicelled, coronal scales overtopping the anther-cells, stigma long 

 fusiform tip slender notched. Wight Ic. t. 886; Dene, in DC. Prodi', viii. 

 505. 



Hills of the DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON ; Matu- 

 ratte district alt. 3000 ft. Thwaites ; Galle, Champion. 



Very near T. Roxburghii, but stouter, with more coriaceous leaves, longer more 

 densely tomentose cymes, larger usually pedicelled flowers ^ in. diam., less mem- 

 branous calyx and corolla, and longer coronal scales. Follicles quite glabrous, more 

 or less curved, some 3 by \ in. and flattened, others 7 by \ in. and nearly cylindric. 

 Seeds i in. ovate, hardly beaked. In some specimens, both Peninsular and 

 Ceylonese, the leaves are narrow, 2 by i in., quite glabrous and shining on both 

 surfaces, in others they are 2^ in. long and broad, rusty-pubescent beneath. I do not 

 find the tube of the corolla to be pubescent within as figured by Wight. 



6. T. concanensis, Hook. f. ; leaves obovate or elliptic cuspidate 

 mottled and glabrous or pubescent ' beneath, cymes densely tomentose much 

 branched many-fld., coronal scales hardly overtopping the anther-cells, stigma 

 long slender. 



CANABA ; on the Bababoodan hills, Law. 



This again closely resembles T. Kleinii, but the leaves are much larger, 3-5 by 

 2^-3 in., more obovate, with petioles ^-f in. long, and the cymes are more divided, 

 very many-flowered, densely tomentose. The leaves are dark green, minutely mottled 

 between the nerves beneath in a branching reticulated manner, a character I do not 



