202 ASCLEPIADE®. [Marsdenia, 
apiculate ; follicles solitary, elongate-ovoid, strongly and bluntish 
acuminate, especially while young densely puberulous, 24 to 3 in. 
long. 
Has.—Ava, along the banks of the Irrawaddi; Chittagong.—Fl. HLS. 
GYMNEMA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted, the lobes erect. Corolla rotate or almost: bell- 
shaped, 5-cleft, furnished at the throat with 5 scales or tubercles 
alternating with the lobes. Staminal crown none or reduced to 
5 scarcely prominent protuberances at the base of the gynostegium. 
Anthers terminating in a membrane. Pollen-masses 2 to each 
1. G, acuminatum, Wall.—An evergreen, large, woody climber, 
the young parts pubescent; bark spongy, deeply cracked ; leaves 
ovate to elliptically oblong, acute at the rounded base, on a puberu- 
lous petiole about 4 in. long, acuminate, 24-4 in. long, entire, 
chartaceous, glabrous above except on the nerves, beneath shortl 
tomentose or pubescent, glabrescent with age; flowers small, 
white, on about a line long pubescent pedicels, forming small, 
almost globular, crowded umbellets usually in pairs, rarely solitary 
between the opposite petioles; calyx pubescent, the lobes bluntish ; 
corolla glabrous, the scales ovate, almost membranous; stigma 
conical, longer than the stamens ; follicles conical from a thick 
ase, 2 in. long, at length glabrous ; seeds large, surrounded by 4 - 
membranous margin. 
Has.—Forests of Chittagong; Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. begin. of B.S. 
PERGULARIA, L. 
terminated by a membrane. Pollens erect, ovoid-oblong. Stigm@ 
‘nude. Follicles ventricose-lanceolate, smooth. Seeds comose.— 8 
Woody climbers, with opposite leaves, Flowers in interpetiolat 
cymes. : 
- Corolla-tube about 34-4 lin. long, villous withi in, Coe 
=~ ashes nee bas weet te iets 2 HS sdovatieitil 
Corolla-tube 1-1} lin. long, quite glabrous within, the lobes linear, 
nearly twide the length of the tube es : : ate ; a P. pallida. 
