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petioles nearly round without glands ; peduncles shorter than the 

 leaf, bearing towards the apex, 2 to 3 sessile, few-flowered 

 umbels; flowers rather large, long-pedicelled, divisions of the 

 corolla acute. Wight Ic. 1277 ; Syn. Asclepias asthmatica, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. ii, p 33; Willd. sp. p 1270; Cynanchum vomitoriwr, 

 Lam. Encycl. ii, p 235; C ipecacuana, Willd. Jaterb. der. Pharm ; 

 C indicum, Burm; C viridiflorum, Bot. Mag. t. 1929; Pluk. t. 

 336, / 7. 



4. FASCICULATA, Ham., Wight and Arn. Contr. p 50. Erect, 

 or scarcely twining, glabrous ; leaves approximated, ovate, rather 

 obtuse, rather fleshy, decreasing in size upwards ; peduncles erect, 

 flexuous, bearing at the flexures 2 to 3 few-flowered fascicles. 

 Southern Concan. Wight Ic. t. 848. 



12. COSMOSTIGMA, Wight. 



1. RACEMOSUM, Wight Contr. p 41. Shrubby, climbing; 

 branchlets piped ; leaves broadly-ovate or rounded-acuminate, 

 obtuse or cordate at the base, glabrous ; peduncles interpetiolar ; 

 corymbose racemose at the apex ; flowers small, yellow, marked with 

 ferruginous dots ; follicles large, linear oblong-obtuse, smooth. 

 Common in hedges ; flowers in the rains. Syn. Asclepias racemosa, 

 Roxb. Fllnd. ii, p 32; Deless. Ic. Select, v, 35, t. 84; Wight 

 Ic. 591. 



13. GYMNEMA, R. Br. 



1 . SYLVESTRE, R. Br. Wern. Soc. i, 33. Shrubby, climbing, 

 all except the upperside of the leaves softly pubescent ; leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, attenuated at both ends, or obscurely 

 cordate at the base ; peduncles as long as the petioles ; umbels twin, 

 many-flowered ; flowers crowded, small, yellow ; follicles slender, 

 attenuated, glabrous. The Ghauts and Southern Maratha Country, 

 Law; Wight. Ic. t. 349; Syn. G parviflorum, Wall. Tent. Fl Nep. 

 p50; Periploca sylvestris, Willd. sp. i, 1252; Asclepias geminata, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 45; Wight Ic. 349. 



14. BIDARIA, Endl. 



1. ELEGANS, DeCaisne DC. Prod. 8, p 623. Twining ; 

 branches slender, smooth ; leaves cordate-ovate or oval-acuminate, 

 waved on the margin, quite smooth ; petioles puberulous ; umbels 

 at first shortly ped uncled, after elongated spirally, of the same 

 length as the pedicels ; flowers small, greenish-yellow ; follicles 

 acuminate, 3 inches long, 3 to 4 lines thick. On the higher Ghauts. 

 Syn. Gymnema elegans, Wight Contr. p 46. 



