Gymnema. | ASCLEPIADACEZ. 693 
globose and smooth or oblong and 2-keeled follicles. Seeds very 
large; coma 0. 
hr purplish ; lobes pubescent within; fruit brown, large, caer ; 
leaves 3-4 in. long, oblong or ovate, acuminate or obtuse-apicula 
ae 
Corolla yellow with brown dots, nearly glabrous within ; fruit yellow, small, 
ellipsoid ; leaves 1-2 in., rarely 3 in., long, elliptic, siete lanceolate or 
linear- oblong, obtuse or acute carinatus 
1251. ae aru GLoBosus Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 27. 
Sundri 
A ean stout-branched, glabrous shrub. Beng. 
ata. 
Baoli- 
1252. Sarcorosus carmnatus Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 28. 
Sundribuns. 
A twining, ori shrub, with slender branches. 
Beng. Baoli-lat 
581. Gymnema R. Br. 
Twining shrubs or undershrubs; leaves opposite. Flowers 
small, in crowded, umbellate te cymes. Sepals connate below in a 
5-partite Calyx; base usually 5-10-glandular within ; ae 
ovate, obtuse. Petals 5, connate in a subrotate, campanulate, or 
urceolate corolla; lobes thick, twisted, subvalvate, or slightly 
overlapping to the right: corona 0, or of 5 5 fle shy processes, adnate 
re) 
column; anthers erect, with small, membranous tips; pollen- 
masses solitary in each cell, ov ohne: a long-pedicelled, 
usually small, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct; a large, conic or 
clavate or capitate, en Fruit of 2 ane or turgid, terete, 
Smooth, acuminate follicles. Seeds comose. 
*Corolla-tube with the free points of the feshy eneee aye 
truding above the sinuses ; processes produced downwards on the tube as 
double villous soa — 
tem ender 9 in. lene softly pubescent on both sides, as are the 
S, coe and cymes; corolla °25 in. wide; lobes ciliolate; 
aaa slender sete 
Leaves 3-6 in. ig? almost glabrous, shining above, densely tomen- 
tose benea, th, as are the branches, petioles, and — : eae in. 
wide ; lobes not ciliolate ; follicles turgid, ovoid, beaked...ccuminatim. 
