150 



filiform ; flowers greenish ; divisions of the corol lanceolate, reflexed. 

 Bombay, Salsette, Gujarat, and Decean, plentiful. Syn. Asclepias 

 microphylla, RoxId. F1 Ind. ii, p 35; Heyne in Roth. nov. sp. 

 p 177 ; Wight Ic. 352. A type of the desert Flora. 



9. OXYSTELMA, R. Br. 



1. EscuLENTUM, R. Br. Mem. Wern. Soc. i, p 40. — Twining, 

 perennial ; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, mucronate, glabrous ; 

 peduncles 1 to 5-flowered ; margins of corolla ciliated ; flowers 

 large, pale rose-coloured, streaked with purple; follicles oblong, - 

 obtusely acuminated, very handsome. The Concans and Decean, 

 rare. Syn. Periploca esculenta, Linn. Fil. suppl. p 168 ; Willd. sp. PI 

 1250; Roxb. Cor. ^ 11 ; Asclepias rosea, lloxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 40. 



10. DCEMIA, R. Br. 



1 . Extensa, R. Br. loc. cit. — Twining, perennial ; branches hoary 

 and hairy ; leaves subrotund, cordate, acuminate, pubescent, mem- 

 branaceous ; peduncles and pedicels long, slender; flowers drooping, 

 dull-white ; follicles covered with soft bristles, and with a curved 

 beak. Northern Concan, and Gujarat; flowers in January. Syn. 

 Cynanchum extensum. Ait. Hort. Kew. i, 303 ; C cordifolium, 

 Retz. Obs. ii, p 15 ; Asclepias echinata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 44 ; A 

 convolvulacese, Willd. sp. PI i, 1269; A doemia, Forsk. Fl ^gypt, 

 p 51 ; Wight Ic. 596. 



11. TYLOPHORA, R. Br. 



1. Carnosa, Wall., Wight and Am. Contr. p 49. — Twining, 

 glabrous ; stems and branches slender ; leaves fleshy-ovate or 

 eUiptic-ovate mucronate, shining, paler beneath ; petioles pubescent 

 above ; peduncles longer than the petioles, several flowered ; pedicels 

 filiform; flowers small, purple, inside leaflets of the staminal 

 crown suborbicular ; leaves 1 to 2 inches long, 6 to 9 lines broad. 

 Wight Ic. <. 351. 



2. Tenuissima, Wight and Am. Contr. p 49. — Twining, 

 glabrous ; branches slender ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, subcordate 

 at the base, cuspidate, veinless, revolute on the margin; peduncles 

 flexuous, having several filiform pedicels at the bends ; flowers 

 small ; leaflets of the staminal crown ovate-oblong. V\ ight Ic. 688 ; 

 l?yn. Ascli^pias tenuissima, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 44; Rcem. and 

 Schult. syst. vi, p 85. 



3. AsTHMATiCA, Wight and Arn. Contr. p 51. — Twining, 

 glabrous, or pubescent; branches slender; leaves ovate or somewhat 

 rounded-acuminate, often cordate at the base, glabrous above ; 



