Plants of the Punjab. 



586 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals united. 



Hoya longifolia, 



Asclepiadace/e. 



F. B. I. iv. 56. 



Himalaya, 



1-4,500 ft., 



east of the Sutlej, 



Valley below Cliota 



Simla (Collett). 



perennial, smooth, stems climbing over trees and 

 rocks, rooting, branches hanging clown ; leaves 2-6 by 

 |-1 in., narrowly-lanceolate, short-pointed, fleshy, stalks 

 |-1 in., very stout ; flowers |-1 in. diam., white waxy tinged 

 with pink, m axillary shortly stalked umbel-like clusters, 

 stalks 2 in. long, calyx 5-partite, lobe ovate, smooth, 

 corolla 5-lobed, lobes triangular, tube very short, scales 

 thick, joined to the stammal tube, flat spreading in a star- 

 shape, inner angle produced in a short point, back round, 

 other characters like the last species ; folHcles 4-6 in, 

 straight slender, seeds | in., lanceolate, tufted with long 

 hairs. 



Leptadenia 

 reticulata, 



Ascleptadage^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 63. 



The Plains, 

 east of the Sutlej, 

 Ambala(E dge wo r th) . 



perennial, twining, leafy, bark corky, young part 

 grey-felted ; leaves 1-2 in., ovate-heart-shaped or narrowed 

 at both ends, short-pointed, leathery, pale, stalks |-J in. ; 

 flowers I in. diam., thick, velvety, in crowded axillary 

 umbel-like grey clusters, which are solitary or iti pairs, |-1 

 in. diam., calyx shortly 5-lobed, top-shaped, lobes blunt, 

 corolla wheel-shaped, lobes 5, tips keeled on the face, tube 

 smooth, shining from the scales which are continued half 

 waj down the lobes ; folHcles 2|-3 by |^-f in,, thick, 

 straight, smooth, almost woody, beak thick, curved, seeds 

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



Ceropegia bulbosa, perennial, root tuberous, stem very slender, twining ; 



Asclepiadace^. leaves various, 1-5 by |-1 in,, linear-lanceolate, stalked 



F. B. I. iv. 67. or almost sessile, always fleshy ; flowers |-1 in., greenish, 



The Plains. in 3-5-flowered axillary umbel-like clusters on stalks -|-1 



Multan (Aitchison). in. long, calyx 5-partite, lobes -j^j in. long, narrow, corolla 



straight, narrow, mouth sHghtly dilated, 5-angled, lobes 5, 

 ^-| in., linear from a triangular base, hairy within, tube 

 purple within, slender ; follicles 4 in. long, slender, cylin- 

 dric, seeds | in. long, linear-oblong, winged, tufted. 



Thunbergia fragrans, 



Acanthace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 390. 

 The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 

 Cultivated. 



perennial, climbing, stems slender, hairy or smooth ; 

 leaves 2-3 by |-1| in., ovate, or oblong, short-pointed, 

 base notched deeply, or forked, toothed, stalk |-1^ in. ; 

 flowers 1|- in., white, fragrant or not, axillarj^ one, rarely 

 two, in an axil, stalks 1-3 in., bracts leaf -like at the base 

 of the stalk, bract eoles | in., oblong, calyx -J- in. enlarging 

 in fruit to i, divided into 12-16 long-lanceolate teeth, hardly 

 longer than the tube, corolla 5-lobed, lobes rounded, tube 

 curved, dilated, stamens 4, hi unequal pairs, near, the 

 bottom of the tube, style funnel-shaped, 2-lipped ; capsule 

 |-1 in,, smooth, shining, round, abruptly narrowed into a 



