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cymes subsessile or shortly-peduncled ; flowers small, deep purple 

 inside ; follicles slender, straight. A very common plant. The 

 root is used as a substitute for Sarsaparilla, and from its aroma 

 seems to have active properties. Wight Ic. 594 ; Syn. Periploca 

 indica, Willd. sp. i, p 1251 ; Asclepias pseudosarsa, Roxb. Fl Ind. 

 ii, 39 ; Deless Ic. v, 24, t. 55. 



2. CRYPTOLEPIS, R. Br. 



1 . PucHANANi, Roem. and Schult. syst. iv, 409. — A milky shrub, 

 with dark-coloured cracked bark, coming off in thin laminae, climbing, 

 smooth ; leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad-elliptic, with a short 

 subulate point, bright-green above, whitish and glaucous beneath, 

 transversely veined ; corymbs axillary, short-peduncled ; flowers 

 subsessile, pale-yellow ; corol segments ligulate. Royle Trans. 

 Linn. SoC. xix, 53, t. b ; C reticulata, Royle lllustr. Him. PI. p 1, 

 270 ; Nerium reticulatum, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 9. Common in Bom- 

 bay, Elephanta, the Concans, &c., and Ghauts. Wight Ic. t. 49. 



3. TOXOCARPUS, W. and A. 



1. Crassifolius, Wight Contr. p 61. — Branches sparingly 

 pubescent ; leaves oval-acuminate, glabrous on both sides, paler 

 beneath, and with a narrow recurved margin ; branches of the cyme 

 elongated, panicled ; flowers small, sessile, fascicled ; divisions of 

 the corolla reflexed at the apex, densely bearded with white hairs 

 (collapsed tubes) within. The Ghauts. Wight Ic. t. 598. 



4. HOLOSTEMMA, R. Br. 



1. H Rheedei, Spr. syst. i, 851. — A twining, glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves broadly ovate-cordate, with a wide sinus, acuminated, glab- 

 rous ; umbels shortly-peduncled ; flowers pretty large, thick, and 

 fleshy, red and white, fragrant ; follicles ventricose, smooth. Wight 

 Ic. 597. Very common in hedges, Bombay and the Concans. Syn. 

 Asclepias annularis, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 37 ; Sarcostemma annulare, 

 Roth. nov. sp. p 178. Found also above the Ghauts. 



5. CYNANCHUM. 



1. Pauciflorum, R. Br. — Twining, glabrous; leaves ovate 

 acuminate, reniformly cordate," with diverging auricles ; umbels 

 few-flowered ; peduncles shorter than the petioles ; flowers glabrous, 

 on short pedicels ; crown equaling corolla, with a 10-cleft pUcate 

 border, naked inside ; anthers lanceolate-acuminate, bifid at the 

 point ; alternate ones very short, and emarginate or truncate. At 

 Moosee, near Poona. 



