147 



2. A CoNCANENSis, Hook. Ic. PI ix, t. 841. — Climbing, 

 glabrous; leaves broad-elliptic, ovate, very shortly acuminated, 

 cordate at the base, membranaceous, remotely penninerved ; 

 peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaf; cymes compound dense ; 

 sepals triquetrous, acuminate ; corol tube short, divisions of the 

 limb oblong-obtuse, spreading ; stamens exserted, glands 5, large, 

 obtuse. South Concan; rare. 



13. BEAUMOiMTIA, Wall. 



1. B Jerdoniana, Wight Ic. 1314 & 1315. — A climbing shrub ; 

 leaves obovate, abruptly acuminate, 8 to 10 inches long ; cymes 

 terminal, many-flov\fered ; corolla large, infundibuliform, 4 inches 

 long ; follicles cylindric, 9 to 10 inches long, and about 1 thick ; 

 calyx lobes narrow-lanceolate. Warree and the^ Southern Maratha 

 Country; in Canara, plentiful. 



14. ICHNOCARPUS, R. Br. 



1 . I Frutescens, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i, p 61 . — A climbing 

 shrub; leaves small, elliptic-acute at both ends, hairy beneath; 

 cymes terminal, many-flowered, covered with reddish tomentum ; 

 flowers very small, white ; follicles 6 inches long ; leaves 1 to 3 inches 

 long. Common in the Warree Country, climbing over trees. 

 Southern Maratha Country, Law ; Dharwar Collectorate ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 430; Syn. Apocynum floribus fasciculatis, Burm ; Thes. 

 Zeyl. t. 12; Apocynum frutescens, Linn. sp. 312; Echites frute- 

 scens, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 12. 



15. ANODENDRON, DC. 



1. Paniculatum, DC. Prod. 8, 443. — An immense climbing 

 shrub, glabrous ; leaves opposite, entire, obtusely cuspidate, coria- 

 ceous ; cymes axillary and terminal, trichotomous, ])anicled ; 

 flowers very numerous, small, pale-yellow ; follicles atte'nuated 

 upwards, from an ovoid base, somewhat woody, smooth, 4 inches 

 long. Very common on the Ghauts. Syn. Echites paniculata, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. p 17; Wight Ic. t. 396; Gymnema nepalense of 

 Graham's Catalogue, p 120. Native name "Laratanee"; flowers 

 in January and March. 



XC. ASCLEPIADE^. 



1. HEMIDESMUS, R. Br. 



1. H Indious, R, Br. Mem. Wern. Soc. ij 56. — A twinino- 

 glabrous plant ; leaves from ovate to narraw-linear, cuspidate ; 



