484 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XX. 

 Herbs, erect, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals United. 



i-i in. long, broadly ovoid, concave on one side, 

 convex on the other, crowned with a bunch of fine 

 hairs. 



u -. M .. m very like the last species, but sometimes with the 

 Cvnanchum Arnottianum, j r j 



fcjr „ leaves in circles, and the corolla smaller and dark 



AsCLEPIADACEiE. 



F. B. I. iv. 22. P ur P le - 



Kashmir, 6-8,000 ft. 

 Dunglagalli (Douie). 





Cynanchum Jacquemonti- 

 anum, 



ASCLEPIADACEIE. 



F. B. I. iv. 26. 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan (Boissier). 



small to medium size, perennial, smooth, branches 

 many, slender from a woody stock, juice milky; 

 leaves 1-1^ by £-f in., small, lanceolate from a broad 

 heart-shaped base, finely long-pointed, stalk £4 in.; 

 flowers J-i in. diam., many in level clusters on 

 stalks longer than the leaves, calyx segments ovate, 

 corolla velvety within, corona equal to the corolla, 

 5-fid, lobes finely lanceolate, simple or divided with 

 a small flat process below ; otherwise like the last 

 species. 



Ceropegia Wallichii, 



ASCLEPIADACEIE. 



F. B. I. iv. 67. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 

 Simla, Prospect and 



Elysium Hills, Shali 



(Oollett) 



• small, velvety, stem A in. diam. ; leaves 2-2^ in., 

 ovate or rounded, nearly sessile, tip blunt short- 

 pointed or rounded ; flowers dark red-purple, f-1 in- 

 long, in crowded stalked clusters on a very short 

 axillary main stalk, bracts bristly, calyx segments 5, 

 narrow, J in. long, thread-like, corolla tube narrow, 

 base swollen, mouth funnel-shaped, sharply 5- 

 angled, lobes £ in. long, erect, narrow, tips joining, 

 within it 10 coronal scales, in 2 series, outer united 

 in a short 10-lobed cup joined to the staminal tube, 

 inner longer, linear, erect, ununited, stamens 5, 

 united into a very short tube, anther tips blunt; 

 follicles smooth, tapering, 2| in., long-pointed, seeds 

 crowned with a bunch of hairs. 



