30 xcv. ASCLEPiADE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gymnema. 



4. C acuminatum, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 50 ; Cat. 8187 ; TDranches 

 stout, petiole8 leaves beneath cymes and sepals densely tomentose,_ leaves 3-6 in. 

 coriaceous ovate acuminate, cymes peduncled globose, coroUa J in. diam. lolies 

 glabrous not ciliate, follicles turgid ovoid beaked woody, seeds large elliptic 

 broadly winged. Wight Contrib. 45 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 622. Cynanchum 

 acuminatum, Herb. Ham. Asclepias acuminata, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 21, and 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 55. 



East Bengal, Griffith. Silhet and Tenasseeim, Wallich. Chittagong, Roxburgh. 

 Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A large climbing shrub, bark of old wood spongy and split (Roxburgh). Leaves 

 coriaeeous, rather shining above ; petiole ^-1 in. Calyx villous. Follicles 3 in. long, 

 base cordate, thickly woody, narrowed into a stout beak, glabrous. Seeds | in. long, 

 flat, wing broad membranous. 



5. Cr. latifolium, Wall, in Wight. Contrib. 45, and Cat. 8188; branches 

 stout petioles leaf-nerves beneath cymes and sepals finely pubescent, leaves large 

 orbicular acute or cuspidate, cymes 2-nate peduncled very many-fld. globose, 

 pedicels slender, corolla-lobes ciliolate thickened and puberulous, follicles 

 slender punctate, seeds narrow. Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 623. 



Silhet ; Burma, at Trogla and the Saluen river, Wallich. 



Leaves 4-5 in. long and nearly as broad, base rounded or subacute, glabrous above 

 except the puberulous midrib, pale beneath ; nerves spreading ; petiole \-i in. 

 Cymes J-l in. diara. ; peduncle ^-\ in. ; pedicels very slender. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 obtuse. CoroUa i in. diam. Follicles 3 in. long, thinly coriaceous. /Seeds as in <?. 

 si//cesire. 



6. G. g'labrum, Wight Contrib. 45 ; branches stout and petioles leaf- 

 nerves beneath and cymes and sepals finely pubescent, leaves large broadly ovate 

 or oblong acuminate, cymes 2-nate peduncled globose many-fld., pedicels 

 slender, corolla very minute, lobes glabrous not ciliate thickened, follicles fusi- 

 form. Wall. Cat. 8189 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 623. 



BxTEMA ; at Taong-dong, Wallich. 



Very similar in foliage to (?. latifolium, but the leaves are hardly so rounded and 

 the petioles 1-1 J in. long; the flowers Tp^5 i°- diam., and the follicles are lanceolate 

 in outline, 4 by 1 in., thinly woody, glabrous, smooth; the seeds broadly ovate ^ in. 

 long, flat. 



7. G. rotundatum, Thioaitei Enum. 197 ; branches petioles leaves 

 beneath cymes and sepals tomentose, leaves long-petioled rounded-ovate obtusely 

 acuminate subpilose above, petiole glandular, cymes 2-nate peduncled densely 

 many-fld., sepals rounded, corolla-lobes not ciliate quite glabrous, coronal pro- 

 cesses wholly below the sinus. ' 



Ceylon; central province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites: 



I have seen but one specimen ; it differs from G. latifolium chiefly in the longer 

 petioles, 1-1 i in. and peduncles. The fruit is wanting to tell its affinity. It differs 

 from all others of this seciion in the coronal processes having no free points between 

 the sinus. 



8. G-. lactiferum, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 33 ; branches petioles and 

 nerves beneath glabrous or puberulous, leaves ovate oblong or lanceolate acumi- 

 nate point often long, cymes peduncled and broadly oblong or rounded, sepals 

 gkbrous or sparsely hairy, corolla i in. diam. lobes short ciliolate glabrous. 



Wiffht Contrib. 44 ; Dene, in DC. Prod?: viii. 622. 



Khasia Mts., Malay Peninsula, and Ceylon.— Distbib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A stout climber. Leaves 2-4 by |-1| in., coriaceous, brown when dry ; nerves 



