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petioles -25 to -5 in. long, puberulous in the channel on the upper side. 

 Cymes from jjetween the petioles, very slender, paniculate, glabrous, 

 reaching 4 to 5 in. in length ; rachis filiform, flexuose, its branches 

 divaricate, finally bearing few-flowered subumbellate racemes ; pedicels 

 filiform, -25 to '5 in. long ; bracts minute, lanceolate-subulate ; buds 

 globose; flowers dark purple. Calyx glabrous; lobes lanceolate, -025 in. 

 long. Corolla rotate; tube short; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved. 

 Corona-processes inflated, somewhat annular-globose, as long as the 

 filaments. Anthers slender ; appendages very short, incurved ; pollen- 

 masses minute, horizontal, ovoid, attached by straight caudicles to the 

 rather slender pollen-carriers. Ovary of 2 carpels ; style-apex pen- 

 tagonal, top convex. Follicles 1 or 2, 2 to 3 in. long, lanceolate, poniard- 

 shaped, long-acuminate ; pericarp membranous, smooth. Seeds ovate, 

 •2 to '25 in. long, broadly winged, dentate below, truncate at tip, and 

 bearing a white silky coma -75 to 1 in. long ; testa dark brown, striate, 

 sparsely tubercular ; cotyledons elliptic, radicle cylindric, both together 

 •05 to -1 in. long. Dene, in DC. Prodr. VIII. 608 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 II. 488 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 42 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 158 ; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 162 ; Prain Beng. Plants 698. T. carnosa, Wall, 

 in Wight Contrib. 49 ; Wall. Cat. 8200 ; Wight Ic. t. 351 ; Dene, in 

 DC. I. c. 607 ; Miq. I. c. 488. T. tenuissima, Wight Contrib. 47, and Ic. 

 t. 588 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 150 ; Dene, in DC. I. c. 607. Asclepias 

 tenuissima, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. II. 41. A. dichotoma, 

 Eottl. in Wall. Cat. 8200 B.C. Ceropegia Decaisneana, Miq. PI. 

 Hohenack. 634. 



Penang : Curtis 1526. Perak: Wray 2125; Scortechini; King's 

 Collector 6099, 10600. Malacca: Griffith; Maingay (K.D.) 1108, 1139. 

 JoHORE : Bidley 4030, 9162. Singapore : Bidley 5746 ; Kunstler 113, 

 266. — DisTRiB. India, Burma, Ceylon, Java, Borneo [Hamland 3060). 



4. Tylophora exilis, Colebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XII. 358, t. 16 

 (1817). A slender twiner ; branchlets pale brown, terete, slender, 

 puberulous. Leaves chartaceous when dry ; ovate-oblong or -lanceolate, 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; margins recurved ; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath, with a few minute 

 glands at its base ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, the lowest 2 pairs close 

 together, the rest distant, curving upwards to meet in a looped intra- 

 marginal nerve raised above ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations 

 obscure ; petiole slender, -5 to 1 in. long, articulate at the base. 

 Inflorescence longer than the leaves, up to 4 in. long, puberulous ; 

 rachis slender, flexuous, simple or rarely branched, bearing at its nodes 

 umbellately racemose flower-clusters, the clusters many-flowered ; bracts 



