42 xcv. ASCLEPIADEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tylophora. 



describes the processes of the column as toothed on the inner margin below the tip, 

 and the pollen-masses as transverse. 



10. T. long-ifolia, Wight Contrib. 50 ; quite glabrous, leaves lanceolate 

 from a broad cordate base acuminate, cymes elongate bearing small distant 

 umbels on the very long slender rachis, sepals ovate, corolla-lobes snort ovate 

 obtuse, coronal processes gibbous. Wall. Cat. 8205; Dene, in DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 608. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., Clarke. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., Wal- 

 lich, &c. 



Stem and branches slender. Leaves 3-6 by f-l in., membranous, nerves distant ; 

 petiole ^-i in. Cymes very slender and few-fid. Corolla in. diam., yellow. Follicles 

 not seen. 



11. T. himalaica, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves petioled ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate base acute or rounded, cymes bearing short distant umbels 

 on the very long slender rachis, sepals lanceolate, corolla-lobes oblong-ovate 

 obtuse, coronal processes gibbous. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA (Suhunsudhara), Falconer. SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Thomson, Clarke. KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Very closely allied to T. longifolia, but the leaves are very different; always 

 contracted, generally acute, and never cordate at the base ; and the flowers are twice 

 as large, with narrow longer sepals, more membranous longer corolla-lobes, and a 

 much larger column. Follicles 4-5 in., narrowly poniard-shaped. Seeds in. long, 

 broadly ovate. I have observed a very few hairs on the sepals. 



12. T. zeylanica, Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 608; quite glabrous, leaves 

 large fleshy ovate elliptic or almost rounded acuminate acute or apiculate, 

 cymes elongate bearing few- or many-fld. umbels or racemes on the divaricate 

 branches, sepals ovate obtuse, corolla lobes oblong-ovate obtuse, coronal pro- 

 cesses gibbous. T. micrantha, Thwaites Enum. 197. Oynanchum micranthum, 

 Thunb. Diss. 6 ; DC. I.e. 548. 



TBAVANCORE, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. CEYLON ; Central province, alt. 2-4000 ft. 



A tall climber. Leaves 4-6 by 2-4 in. ; midrib thick with a gland above at the 

 insertion of the petiole; nerves spreading; petiole 1-1^ in. Flowers in. diam.; 

 pedicels slender. Follicles 4-6 in., slender. Seeds | in. long, linear-oblong. In one 

 of Beddome's specimens the flower-bearing tips of the branches are thickened and 

 covered with spirally placed scars, each subtended by a minute bract at the insertion 

 of the pedicels. 



13. T. tenuis, JBlume Bijd. 1062 ; very slender, quite glabrous, leaves 

 small fleshy ovate elliptic or oblong obtuse acute or apiculate, base acute or 

 rounded, peduncle capillary simple or branched bearing few-fld. sessile umbels, 

 pedicels capillary, sepals ovate acute, corolla-lobes short ovate obtuse, coronal 

 processes gibbous or globose. Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 608. T. carnosa, Wall, 

 in Wight Contrib. 49 ; Wall. Cat. 8200; Wight. Ic. t. 351 ; Dene. I. c. 607 ; T. 

 tenuissima, Wight $ Arn. Contrib. 47 ; Wight Ic. t. 588 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 150. Dene. 1. c. 607. Asclepias tenuissima, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 20, and 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 41. A. dichotoma, Rottl. in Wall. Cat. 8200 B.C. Ceropegia 

 Decaisneana, Miquel PL Hohenack. n. 634. 



BENGAL, Roxburgh ; Salt Lakes near Calcutta and Sunderbunds, Clarke. DECCAN 

 PENINSULA, from Canara southwards. BIRMA, Wallich. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 

 CEYLON, hotter parts of the Island, Walker, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



Very slender, prostrate or twining. Leaves rarely 1, in. long, very variable in 

 form and breadth, base sometimes cordate, nerves few indistinct ; petiole g- in. 

 Flowers rarely in. diam., dark purple; pedicels ^-^ in. Pollen-masses suberect. 

 Follicles 3 in. long, poniard-shaped, pericarp membranous. Seeds % in., ovate. 



