Plants of the Punjab. 



165 



Hbkbs, Erect, with Opposite Bxstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Cynanchum 

 glaucum, 



Asclepiadace^. 

 F. B. L iv. 22. 



Himalaya, 

 5-9,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra 



(OoUett). 



Petals united. 



medium size, perennial, woolly or velvety, pale or 

 with a bluish-green waxy gloss, juice milky ; leaves 1-3 

 by l|-2iin., ova.te, oblong or lanceolate' leathery, short- or 

 long-pointed, stalk \-\ in. long ; flowers \ in. diam., 

 yellow, in nearly sessile velvety umbelled clusters, calyx 

 segments 5, corolla lobes 5, hairy within, coronal lobes 

 5, rounded, broad, fleshy, stamens, etc., as in the last 

 species ; folhcles 2-4 in., slender, seeds \-\ in. long, broadly 

 ovoid, concave on one side, convex on the other, crowned 

 with a bunch of fine hairs. 



Cynanchum very like the last species, but sometimes with the 



Amottianum, leaves in circles, and the corolla smaller and dark pur* 



Asclbpiadaoe.^. pie. 

 F. B. L iv. 22. 

 Kashmir, 6-8,000 ft. 

 Dunglagalli (Douie). 



Cynanchum 

 Jacquemontianum, 



Asolbpiadaoe^. 

 F. B. L iv. 26. 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan 

 (Bdiflsier). 



small to medium size, perennial, smooth, branches 

 many, slender, from a woody stock, juice milky, leaves 

 I'H '^.y i-f in., small, lanceolate, from a broad heart- 

 shaped base, finely long-pointed, stalk ^-\ in., flowers 

 \-\ in. diam., many, in level clusters on stalks longer than 

 the leaves, calyx segments ovate, corolla velvety within, 

 corona equal to the corolla, 5-fid, lobes finely lanceolate, 

 simple or divided with a small flat prooeas below ; Other- 

 wise like the last species. 



Ceropegia Wallichil, 



ABOLEPlADAOBiB. 



F. B. L iv. 67. 



Himalaya, 



4-8,000 ft. 



Simla, Prospect and 



Elysium Hills, Shall 



(Collett). 



small, velvety, stem \ in. diam. ; leaves 2-2^ in., 

 ovate or rounded, nearly sessile, tip blunt, short-pointed 

 or rounded ; flowers |-1 in. long, dark red purple, in crowded 

 stalked dusters on a very short axillary main stalk, bracts 

 bristly, calyx segments 5, narrow, \ in. long, thread-like, 

 corolla tube narrow, base swollen, mouth funnel-shaped, 

 sharply 5-angled, lobes \ in. long, erect, narrow, tips 

 joining, within it 10 coronal scales, in 2 series, outer united 

 in a short 10-lobed cup joined to the staminal tube, inner 

 longer, linear, erect, ununited, stamens 5, united into a 

 very short tube, anther tips blunt ; follicles smooth, taper- 

 ing, 2| in., long-pointed, seeds orowned with a bunoh bf 

 hairs. 



