584 



Plants oj the Punjab. 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Pergularia pallida, 



ASCLEPIADACB^. 



P. B. I. iv. 38. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Eawalpindi 

 (Douie). 

 Below Murree, 



Pergularia 

 odoratissima, 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



P. B. I. iv. 38. 

 The Plains. 

 Cultivated. 



Pergularia minor, 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



P. B. I. iv. 38. 

 The Plains. 

 Cultivated. 



Tylophora hirsuta, 



ASCLBPIADACE^. 

 P. B. I. iv. 43. 



The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Pathankote 

 (Clarke). 



beaked, deeply wrinkled, seeds | in. long, with a tuft of 

 hairs. The fibre is very fine, and very strong, and makes 

 good fishing Imes. 



perennial, almost smooth, twining ; leaves 2-4 by l|-3 

 in., ovate, notched at the base, stalked, short-pointed ; 

 flowers I in. diam., yellow-green, in axillary umbel-like 

 clusters, calyx 5-partite, corolla tube | in. long, dilated 

 below, smooth, corolla salver-shaped, lobes narrow, much 

 longer than the tube, scales and anthers as in the last 

 species but the scales oblong, tips bearing a linear 

 appendage on inner side ; folHcles 3 by | in., smooth, 

 tapering, seeds ovate, concave. 



Uke the last species, but flowers very sweet-scented, 

 often orange coloured, throat of corolla hairy not smooth. 



like the last species, but leaves often 2-lobed at the 

 base, flowers smaller, corolla lobes shorter and broader. 



perennial, twining, stems stout, densely felted, hairs 

 reflexed ; leaves 2|-4 by l|-2 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 short- or long-pointed, velvety or felted on both surfaces, 

 base round, blunt or notched, stalks f-l| in., stout ; flowers 

 ^-| in. diam. white or pale green, in few- flowered umbels 

 on long zigzag stalks, calyx 5-partite, lobes lanceolate, 

 hairy, corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, broad, short, shghtly 

 overlapping to the right, scales fleshy, united to the very 

 short column, other characters hke the last species ; fol- 

 licle^> 2 by -I in., tapering, long-pointed, smooth, seeds | 

 in. long, ovoid, flat, winged with a tuft of hairs. 



Tylophora tenerrima, hke the last species, but less hairy, leaves only | in. 



AscLEPiADAOE^. broad, flowers purple. 



P. B. I. iv. 44. 



Himalaya, 



3-6,000 ft., 



east of the Sutlej. 



Simla, the Glen 



(Collett), 



