698 BENGAL PLANTS. [Tylophora. 
587. Tylophora R. Br. 
Twining, rarely erect herbs or undershrubs; leaves opposite. 
Flowers small or minute, in umbellate or racemose cymes. Sepals 
5, slightly connate below, glandular within, ovate or lanceolate. 
Petals 5, connate in a rotate corolla; lobes broad, slightly over- 
lapping ts the right: corona of 5 fleshy processes, adnate to the 
staminal column. Stamens 5, adnate to throat or tube of corolla; 
filaments connate in a very short column; anthers very small, 
with inflexed tips; pollen-masses in each cell minute, globose or 
ovoid, erect or ascending, very rarely transverse or pendulous from 
an erect or ascending pedicel, waxy. els 2, distinct; stigma 
discoid, 5-angled, included. Fruit of 2 dency acuminate, smooth 
follicles. Seeds ovoid, flat, winged, comose 
s glabrous, ovate ; cymes glabrous ; pedicels long, capillary ; parses 
out free tips 
Sepals hispid ; is more or less villous or pubescent :— 
Sepals ovate; peduncles long, slender; pedicels very short; ae 
processes without free tips vilis. 
Sepals long, lanceolate ; peduncles shorter than leaves, hispid at er 
of umbels; pedicels long, peaenet a coronal processes adnate to — 
column only below, and with the tips f 
asthmatica. 
1264. TyLopHoRA TENUIS Bl; F. B. I. 
tenumissima F. I. ii. 
iv. 42. Asclepias 
; Sundri ; E. Ben 
A peri es or ving herb 
1265. TyLopHora EXxILIs Colebr.; F. B. I. iv. 44. 
Chittag 
A pi ig peiblaade or twining herb. 
1266. TyLopHoRA ASTHMATICA W. & AL; F. B. I. iv. 45; E. D. 
fees 4) 
Orissa; C. Bengal; N. Bengal; E. Bengal ; Chittagong. 
A slender, twining herb. Uriz ta Mendi; Beng. Anto- 
mul; Hind, Anta-mul, jangli-pikran 
588. Dischidia R. Br. 
Herbs or undershrubs, usually epiphytic, rooting and climbing _ 
or pendulous ; leaves usually opposite, fleshy, sometimes formed | 
into pitchers. lowers small or minute, white or red, in axillary — 
fascicles, umbels, or racemes. Sepals 5, slightly connate below, 
