694 BENGAL PLANTS. [Gymnema. 
*Corolla-tube with double ante _— below the sinuses, but not pro- 
= into fleshy points beyond ; leaves 4-6 in. long, glabrous or 
early so, as are the branches, hii and ee ; corolla -35 in. wide; 
ike glabrous ; follicles ovate- teneconds [p. 693] tingens 
1253. GyMNEMA HIRSUTUM W. & A.; F. B. I. iv. 29. 
Behar ; Chota Nagpur. 
A large, stout, woody climber 
1254. GyMNeMA acuminatuM Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 30. Asclepias 
acuminata F. I. ii. 55. 
E. Bengal; Chitt 
A large climber, baste: of old wood a and spongy. 
1255. GymNEMA TINGENS W. & A.; F. B. I. iv. 81; E. D. G. 751. 
Asclepias tingens ¥. I. ii. 53. 
Behar. 
An extensive climber. 
582. Gongronema Dene. 
Glabrous, twining shrubs or undershrubs; leaves Spposites 
Flowers small, in ap sessile, and umbellate peduncled, axillary 
eymes. Sepals connate in a 5-partite calyx, glandular or no 
within ; lobes dine Petals " connate in an urceola, te, subrotate, 
or wide-campanulate corolla ; lobes twisted, subvalvate or slightly 
overlapping to the right: corona of 5 short scales adnate ‘ bases 
of anthers, or 0. Stamens 5, adnate to base of corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments connate in a short column; anthers erect, with membranous, 
inflexed tips concealing the stigma; pollen-masses in each cell 
solitary, ovoid, erect, waxy. Carpels 2, distinct; stigma convex, 
clavate, or conic. Fruit of 2 slender or stoutish acuminate 
comos 
1256. paviheisi re NEPALENSE Dene. var. sacirTatum F. B. I. 
33. 
dee 
An extensive climber. 
583. Stephanotis Thouars. 
= large, glabrous, climbing shrubs; leaves opposite, cori- 
us. Flowers large, white, showy, in umbellate, peduncled 
cymes, or sain or eas axillary. Sepals connate oa a 5-par- 
tite calyx, not glandular within; lobes lanceolate, leafy. Petals 
