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cymes subsessile or shortly-peduncled ; flowers small, deep purple 

 inside; follicles slender, straight. A very common plant. The 

 root is used as a substitute for Sarsaparilla, and from its aroma 

 seems to have active properties. Wight Ic. 594 ; Syn. Periploca 

 indica, Willd. sp. i, p 1251 ; Asclepias pseudosarsa, lloxb. Fl Ind. 

 ii, 39 ; Deless Ic. v, 24, t. 55. 



2. CRYPTOLEPIS, R. Br. 



1 . PUCHANANI, Rcetn. and Schult. syst. iv, 409. A milky shrub, 

 with dark-coloured cracked bark, coming off in thin laminae, climbing, 

 smooth ; leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad-elliptic, with a short 

 subulate point, bright-green above, whitish and glaucous beneath, 

 transversely veined ; corymbs axillary, short-peduncled ; flowers 

 subsessile, pale-yellow ; corol segments ligulate. Koyle Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xix, 53, t. 5 ; C reticulata, Royle lllustr. Him. PL p 1, 

 270 ; Nerium reticulatum, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 9. Common in Bom- 

 bay, Elephanta, the Concans, &c., and Ghauts. Wight Ic. t. 49. 



3. TOXOCARPUS, W. and A. 



1. CRASSTFOLIUS, Wight Contr. p 61. Branches sparingly 

 pubescent ; leaves oval-acuminate, glabrous on both sides, paler 

 beneath, and with a narrow recurved margin ; branches of the cyme 

 elongated, panicled ; flowers small, sessile, fascicled; divisions of 

 the corolla reflexed at the apex, densely bearded with white hairs 

 (collapsed tubes) within. The Ghauts. Wight Ic. t. 598. 



4. HOLOSTEMMA, R. Br. 



1. PI RIIEEDEI, Spr. syst. i, 851.- A twining, glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves broadly ovate-cordate, with a wide sinus, acuminated, glab- 

 rous ; umbels shortly-peduncled ; flowers pretty large, thick, and 

 fleshy, red and white, fragrant ; follicles ventricose, smooth. Wight 

 Ic. 597. Very common in hedges, Bombay and the Concans. Syn. 

 Asclepias annularis, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 37; Sarcostemma annulare, 

 Roth. nov. sp. p 178. Found also above the Ghauts. 



5. CYNANCHUM. 



1. PAUCIFLORUM, R. Br. Twining, glabrous; leaves ovate 

 acuminate, reniformly cordate, with diverging auricles; umbels 

 few-flowered ; peduncles shorter than the petioles ; flowers glabrous, 

 on short pedicels ; crown equaling corolla, with a 10-cleft plicate 

 border, naked inside ; anthers lanceolate-acuminate, bifid at the 

 point ; alternate ones very short, and emarginate or truncate. At 

 Moosee, near Poona. 



