Gymnema.'] xcv. ASCLEPIADE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 33 



lobes linear with reflexed margins, anthers with membranous margins and a 

 membranous ligule behind and below the inflexed tip, stigma broadly turbinate. 



SUGCIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft., Thomson. 



Stems slender. Leaves 3-6 by f-3^ in., base acute or narrowly rounded ; nerves 

 oblique, very faint ; petiole stout, -f in. Peduncle 5-!^ in., rather slender; flowers 

 umbelled, pedicels twice or thrice as long as the corolla-tube. Sepals very small, 

 broadly oblong. Corolla-tube in. ; lobes as long, spreading, thick. A very remark- 

 able plant, resembling Gr. stenoloba, but differing totally in the texture of the leaves, 

 the reflexed margins of the corolla-lobes and especially in the winged anthers with a 

 membranous ligule behind the tip and parallel to it. It is probably a new genus, but, 

 without the fruit, I do not venture to propose it as such. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



BIDARIA INODORA, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 624. " From sandy places near Pondi- 

 cherry (Cynanchum inodorum v. Ganosma inodora, Lour. Fl. Cock. 166). A climber 

 with fistular glabrous stems, leaves rounded-ovate or -lanceolate quite glabrous base 

 rounded or cordate, petiole slender, peduncles short, pedicels longer, flowers puberu- 

 lous, tube hairy within, stigma conical emarginate exceeding the anthers " (Dene. I.e.). 

 I have no idea what this is ; it is probably a very common plant. 



31. GONGRONEIMA, Dene. 



Glabrous twining shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Cymes various, 

 axillary ; flowers small. Calyx 6-partite. Corolla urceolate subrotate or 

 broadly campanulate, lobes narrowly overlapping to the right. Column short ; 

 coronal scales adnate to the bases of the anthers or 0. Anther-tips inflexed, 

 concealing the stigma ; pollen-masses solitary in each cell, ovoid, waxy, erect ; 

 stigma convex clavate or conical. Follicles acuminate. Seeds comose. DISTRIB. 

 Species about 10 ; Asiatic, African, and Australian. 



* Corolla nearly rotate, tube short. 



1. Cr. nepalense, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 624; glabrous or cymes 

 puberulous, leaves large oblong or ovate acuminate base rounded or cordate, 

 cymes very long-peduncled bracteate, corolla-tube short open, lobes ovate, 

 coronal process small recurved or obsolete. Gymnema nepalense, Wall. Tent. 

 Fl. Nep. 50, t. 38, the left-hand leaf only, and Cat. 8192 ; Wight Contrib. 46. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 3-5000 ft. 



An extensive twiner, shoots and cymes puberulous. Leaves 3-6 by l-3 in., 

 membranous, nerves arching; petiole 1-2 in. Peduncle 2-6 in., generally branching 

 into 3 long divaricate arms, each bearing three many-fld. umbels, pedicels short. 

 Sepals ovate. Corolla in. diam., yellow. Follicles slender, 2^-3 by in. 



VAR. sagittatum ; leaves linear-oblong base rounded or cordate. G. sagittatum, 

 Dene. I.e. Gymnema sagittatum, Wall. Cat. 8194 ; Wight Contrib. 46. G-. nepalense, 

 Wall. Tent. Fl Nep. t. 38 (except the left-hand cordate leaf ). G. columnare, Wall. Cat. 

 8193; Wight $ Arn. I.e. Gongronema columnare, Dene. I.e. Silhet, Assam, and 

 Chittagong. Except the narrower leaves and usually shorter peduncles I can find no 

 difference between G. sagittatum and nepalense. The processes at the base of the 

 column vary very much. 



** Corolla-tube inflated, equalling or exceeding the lobes in length. 



2. G-. Wallichii, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 624 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acute or acuminate, cymes subsessile few-fld., 

 corolla-tube hairy within lobes short ovate. Gymnema Wallichii, Wight* 

 Contrib. 46; Wall. Cat. 8195 A. 



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