Plants of the Punjabi 



683 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulatb Simple Leaves, 



Petals united. 



Holostemma 

 Rheedei, 



AsCLEPIADACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 21. 



Himalaya, 



3-5,000 ft., 



east of the Siitlej. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Cynanchum 

 Dalhousise, 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 25. 

 Himalaya, 

 east of the Sutlej , 

 5-7,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



Cynanchum 

 auriculatum, 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 25. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-12,000 ft. 

 Mashobra, Mahasu 

 (CoUett). 

 Murree (Douie). 

 The Glen, Simla. 



Marsdenia Roylei, 



Murkula, tar, 

 kurang. 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



F. B. I. iv. 35. 



Himalava, 



8-7,000 "ft., 



east of the Sutlej. 



Simla, Jaku, 



Annandale. 



(Collett). 



perennial, smooth, twining, juice milky ; leaves 2|-4 

 by l|-3 in., ovate, short- or long-pointed, base deeply 

 notched, long-stalked, nerves red ; flowers 1-1 1 in. diam., 

 purple, outer surface silvery white in axillary umbel-like 

 few- flowered clusters, main stalks 1-2 in. long, minor 

 stalks as long, calyx 5-partite, lobes not glandular, corolla 

 cup-shaped, tube very short, lobes 5, broad, short-pointed, 

 thick, overlapping to the right, a 10-lobed fleshy ring 

 united to and round the staminal tube, anthers large, 

 oblong, horny, shining, united in a 10-winged column, 

 pollen masses waxy, stigma 5-angled ; fo Hides 6 by l| 

 in., smooth, short, thick, spindle-shaped, green, seeds with 

 a tuft of hairs. 



perennial, twining, smooth except for a line of hairs 

 running between the joints ; leaves 3-7 by ^-l in., Hnear- 

 lanceolate, long-pointed, deeply notched at the base, stalk 

 ^-f in. ; flowers | in. diam., pale green in almost sessile 

 smooth umbels, calyx 5-partite, lobes ovate, corolla tube 

 very short, smooth, lobes 5, reflexed, a bell-shaped ring of 

 10 teeth nearly equal to the corolla with 10 small scales 

 within near the base, staminal tube 10-winged, anther 

 tips small, inflexed, pollen masses waxy, stigma 5-angled ; 

 folhcles 2-4 in., slender, tapering, smooth, seeds with a tuft 

 of hairs. ' 



like the last species, but leaf stalks with a pair of leaf- 

 like appendages, flowers long-stalked, corolla velvety 

 within, yellow-greenish, the ring within the corolla is much 

 smaller, 5-teeth and 5 scales instead of 10. 



perennial, twining, woody, softly felted, juice milky ; 

 leaves 3-5 by l|-3 in., ovate-lanceolate, notched at the 

 base, long-pomted, often velvety beneath, stalks l|-2 in. ; 

 flowers I in. diam., orange, collected densely in axillary 

 umbel-like clusters, calyx-5 partit'. about half as long as 

 the corolla, hairy, corolla almost bell-shaped, fleshy, tube 

 short, lobes 5, velveiy within, hairy without, spreading 

 throat smooth or hairy, 5 scales at the base of the staminal 

 tube, flat, linear, erect, much longer than the tube, 

 tips free, leaning towards each other, anther tips inflexed, 

 pollen masses waxy ; follicles B by 1 in., thick, straight, 



