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(3) T. EoxBURGHir. (TF. ^ A.) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 61.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 505. 



Syn. Asclepias lougistigma, Roxh. fior. Ind. II. p. 46, 



flngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 475. 



Spec. Char. Twining: branchlets rusty-pubescent: leaveSi 

 broad-oval, suddenly and shortly acuminate : corymbs short-pedun- 

 cled, with divaricate branches nearly equalling the leaf: flowers 

 subsessile : throat of the corolla hirsute : segments ligulate, gla- 

 brous : leaflets of the staminal corona ovate, acutish, with an inte- 

 rior short thick acute, scarcely exserted incision, equalling the an- 

 thers : stigma beaked, twisted, equalling the tube of the corolla. 



(Jircars, 



(4) T. CRASSIFOUUS. {R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 61.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 506. 

 JSyn. Secamone erassifolia, Wall, asclep. No. 10.1. 



Spec. Chak. Branchlets sparingly pubescent : leaves short< 

 petioled, oval, acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous : corymbs panicle- 

 shaped, sessile, the branches elongated, and with the calyx, brownish- 

 pubescent : flowers sessile, fascicled, small : segments of the corolla 

 reflexed, densely white-villous : leaflets of the staminal corona with 

 reflexed sides and forming a dorsal keel, the inner incision acumi- 

 nated, long-exserted, somewh?it equalling the stigma : stigma beaked. 



Silhet. 



(5) T. lAURIFOLIUS, (R. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Contrib. p. 61. — Dec. prod. VIII. p. 506. 



Syn, Asclepias laurifolia, Roxb. fior. Ind. II. p. 49. — A. ttH 

 JBrantha, Roxb. I. c. p. 50. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 598. 



Spec. Char. Twining : leaves oval, often acuminated, coriace- 

 ■Ous : corymbs sessile, divaricately trichotomously branched : flow- 

 ers very numerous, small: segments of the corolla reflexed, whit- 

 ish-bearded within : leaflets of the staminal corona somewhat fleshy, 

 short, round-ovate, acutish, the inner incision shortly exserted, 

 somewhat equalling the gynostegium : tops of the anthers broad, 

 somewhat crested, incurved above the obconical apiculated obtuse 

 included stigma : follicles slender, horizontally diverging. 



Chittagong. Tipperah, Cawnporp. Plowering in the rainy 

 Reason. 



