30 xcv. ASCLEPIADEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) \_6fymnema. 



4. G. acuminatum, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 50; Cat. 8187; bra; 

 stout, petioles leaves beneath cymes and sepals densely tomentose, leaves 3-6 in . 

 coriaceous ovate acuminate, cymes peduncled globose, corolla | in. diam. lobes 



flabrous not ciliate, follicles turgid ovoid beaked woody, seeds large elliptic 

 roadly winged. Wight Contrib. 45 ; Done, in DC. Prodr. viii. 622. Cynanchum 

 acuminatuin, Herb. Ham. Asclepias acuminata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21, and 

 FL Ind. ii. 55. 



EAST BENGAL, Griffith. SILHET and TENASSERIM, Wallich. CHITTAGONG. Roxburgh. 

 MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



A. large climbing shrub, bark of old wood spongy and split (Roxburgh). Leaves 

 coriaceous, rather shining above ; petiole |-1 in. Calyx villous. Follicles 3 in. long, 

 base cordate, thickly woody, narrowed into a stout beak, glabrous. Seeds \ in. long, 

 flat, wing broad membranous. 



5. G. latifolium, Wall, in Wight. Contrib. 45, and Cat. 8188; branches 

 stout petioles leaf-nerves beneath cymes and sepals finely pubescent, leaves large 

 orbicular acute or cuspidate, cymes 2-nate peduncled very many-fld. globose, 

 pedicels slender, corolla-lobes ciliolate thickened and puberulous, follicles 

 slender punctate, seeds narrow. Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 623. 



SILHET ; BURMA, at Trogla and the Saluen river, Wallich. 



Leaves 4-5 in. long and nparly as broad, base rounded or subacutp, glabrous above 

 except the puberulous midrib, pale beneath ; nerves spreading ; petiole ^-J in. 

 Cymes ^-1 in. diam. ; peduncle -| in. ; pedicels very slender. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 obtuse". Corolla in. diam. Follicles 3 in. long, thinly coriaceous. Seeds as in G. 



6. Cr. glabrum, Wight Contrib. 45 ; branches stout and petioles leaf- 

 nerves beneath and cymes and sepals finely pubescent, leaves large broadly ovate 

 or oblong acuminate, cymes 2-nate peduncled globose many-fld., pedicels 

 slender, corolla very minute, lobes glabrous not ciliate thickened, follicles fusi- 

 form. Wall. Cat. 8189; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 623. 



BURMA ; at Taong-dong, Wallich. 



Very similar in foliage to G. latifolium, but the leaves are hardly so rounded and 

 the petioles 1-1^ in. long; the flowers T I Q ^ in. diam., and the follicles are lanceolate 

 in outline, 4 by 1 in., thinly woody, glabrous, smooth; the seeds broadly ovate in. 

 long, flat. 



7. G-. ro tun datum, Thwaites Enum. 197 ; branches petioles leaves 

 beneath cymes and sepals tomentose, leaves long-petioled rounded-ovate obtusely 

 acuminate subpilose above, petiole glandular, cymes 2-nate peduncled densely 

 many-fld., sepals rounded, corolla-lobes not ciliate quite glabrous, coronal pro- 

 cesses wholly below the sinus. 



CEYLON ; cenTal province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



I have seen but one specimen; it differs from G. latifolium chiefly in the longer 

 petioles, 1-1 5- in. and peduncles. The fruit is wanting to tell its affinity. It differs 

 from all others of this section in the coronal processes having no free points between 

 the sinus. 



8. G. lactiferum, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 33 ; branches petioles and 

 nerves beneath glabrous or puberulous, leaves ovate oblong or lanceolate acumi- 

 nate point often long, cymes peduncled and broadly oblong or rounded, sepals 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy, corolla in. diam. lobes short ciliolate glabrous. 



Wight Contrib. 44 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 622. 



KHASIA Mrs., MALAY PENINSULA, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneb. 



A stout climber. Leaves 2-4 by f-lf in., coriaceous, brown when dry ; nerves 



