32 xcv. ASCLEPIADEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gymnema. 



viii. 623, partly. B. elegans, Dak. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 151. ? Asclepias mon- 

 tana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 45. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Con can Southwards, on the Ghats. 



This may, as Wight suggests, be a variety of G-. tingens, but I find no intermediate 

 forms ; it differs in the shape and coriaceous nature of the leaves, their short petioles, 

 and in the shorter peduncles. I have seen no fruit. There appear to be three forms 

 of it, 



VATC. 1. Leaves usually ovate, petiole short, cymes many-fld., corolla glabrous. 

 The Concan. 



VAB. 2. Beddomei ; leaves more oblong or oblong-lanceolate, petiole -^ in., 

 cymes few-fld., flowers larger, corolla glabrous. Annamallay hills, alt. 5000 ft. 

 Beddomc. 



VAB. 3. pubiflora ; leaves of var 2., cymes few-fld.. corolla pubescent externally. 

 Nilgherry hills at Nedawullum, alt, 7000 ft., Wight. Clarke. Clarke's specimens have 

 longer peduncles and petioles and densely pubescent cymes. 



12. G. eleg-ans, Wight fy Arn. Contrib. 46 ; glabrous or shoots and 

 cymes puoerulous, leaves 2-4 in. membranous ovate-cordate acute or acuminate, 

 cymes few-fld., peduncles slender shorter than the petioles, sepals ciliate, gla- 

 brate, corolla-lobes obovate-oblong. Wight Ic. t. 830; Wall. Cat. 8191. 

 Bidaria elegans, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 623. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; hills of the South Carnaticfrom the Nilgherries to Travancore, 

 Wight, &c. 



Much smaller and more delicate than G. tingens, with smaller leaves, more slender 

 petioles and pedicels. Follicles 2i-3 by in., narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, straight. 

 Seeds % in. long, ovate, with a broad border. As Wight well remarks, it is difficult 

 to distinguish this from G. tingens except by habit, size, and the few-fld. cymes. 



ft Corolla-tube much exceeding the sepals ; coronal-processes elongate, nearer 

 to the base than to the lobes, often faint and glabrous. 



13. G-. pergularioides, Wight fy Gardner mss. ; branches very slender 

 and petioles and cymes puberulous, leaves membranous elliptic- or obloug- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate base rounded or acute, peduncles equalling the 

 petioles, pedicels very short, corolla-lobes ovate-lanceolate. Bidaria pergula- 

 rioides, Thicaites Enum. 198 ? Cynanchum cuspidatum, Thunb. Obs. in 

 Cynanch. 5 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 548. 



CEYLON, Walker, Gardner, &c. 



Leaves very variable, 1-6 by ^-2 in , nerves arching or very oblique ; petiole |~| 

 in., slender. Cymes dense-fld. ; flowers almost capitate. Sepals broadly oblong, not 

 half as long as the corolla-tube, which is in. and as long as the lobes. Corolla-tube 

 yellow, tinged with red, in. long. " Follicles 5-6 in. long, \ in. broad, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, much attenuate, puberulous, at length glabrate," Thwaites. 



VAR. Gardneri, Thwaites I.e. ; leaves smaller 1-1 in. elliptic-lanceolate more 

 coriaceous, follicles shorter. 



14. G-. stenoloba, Hook. f. ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves membranous 

 lanceolate acuminate, cymes few-fld., peduncles equalling the petioles, pedicels 

 short, corolla-lobes linear, stigma bifid. 



CEYLON, Walker. 



Closely allied to G. pergwlarioides, but the cymes are few-fld., the flowers much 

 larger, the corolla-tube \ in. long, the lobes narrowly linear, the column much longer 

 and more slender and the stigma 2-fid. The follicles answer to the description of 

 those of G. pergularioides, but are quite glabrous. 



15. G. ? Thomson!, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate 

 coriaceous, cymes simple or branched long-peduncled, pedicels long, corolla- 



