42 XCT. ASCLEPiADE^. (J. D. Hookcr.) [Tylophora. 



describes the prooesses of the column as toothed on the inner margin below the tip, 

 and the pollen-masses as transverse. 



10. T. lon^ifolia, Wight Contrib. 50 ; quite glabrous, leayes lanceolate 

 from a broad cordate base acuminate, cymes elongate bearing small distant 

 umbels on the very long slender rachis, sepals ovate, corollarlobes short ovate 

 obtuse, coronal processes gibbous. WaU. Cat. 8205; Dene, in DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 608. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 2000 ft., Clarke. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft., Wcd- 

 Uch, &c. 



Stem and branches slender. Leaves 3-6 by J-IJ in., membranous, nerves distant ; 

 petiole \-\ in. Cymes very slender and few-fld. CoroUa ^ in. diam., yellow. Follicles 

 not seen. 



11. T. bimalalca, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves petioled ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate base acute or rounded, cymes bearing short distant umbels 

 on the very long slender rachis, sepals lanceolate, corolla-lobes oblong-ovate 

 obtuse, coronal processes gibbous. 



Western Himalaya (Suhunsudhara), Falconer. Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 3000 ft., 

 Thomson, Clarke. Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Very closely allied to T. longifolia, but the leaves are very different; always 

 contracted, generally acute, and never cordate at the base ; and the flowers are twice 

 as large, with narrow longer sepals, more membranous longer coroUaflobes, and a 

 much larger column. Follicles 4-5 in., narrowly poniard-shaped. Seeds \ in. long, 

 broadly ovate. — I have observed a very few hairs on the sepals. 



12. T. zeylanlca, Bene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 608; quite glabrous, leaves 

 large fleshy ovate elliptic or almost rounded acuminate acute or apiculate, 

 cymes elongate bearing few- or many-fld. umbels or racemes on the divaricate 

 branches, sepals ovate obtuse, corolla lobes oblong-ovate obtuse, coronal pro- 

 cesses gibbous. T. micrantha, Thwaites JEnum. 197. Oynanchum micranthum, 



Thunb. Diss. 6; DC. I.e. 548. 



Tkavancore, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. Ceylon ; Central province, alt. 2-4000 ft. 



A tail climber. Leaves 4-6 by 2-4 in. ; midrib thick with a gland above at the 

 insertion of the petiole; nerves spreading; petiole 1-1 J in. Flowers J in, diam,; 

 pedicels slender. Follicles 4-6 in., slender. Seeds ^ in. long, linear-oblong. — In one 

 of Beddome's specimens the flower-bearing tips of the branches are thickened and 

 covered with spirally placed scars, each subtended by a minute bract at the insertion 

 of the pedicels. 



13. T. tenuis, Slume Bijd. 1062 ; very slender, quite glabrous, leaves 

 small fleshy ovate elliptic or oblong obtuse acute or apiculate, base acute or 

 rounded, peduncle capillary simple or branched bearing few-fld. sessile umbels, 

 pedicels capUlary, sepals ovate acute, corolla-lobes short ovate obtuse, coronal 

 processes gibbous or globose. Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 608. T. carnosa, WdU. 

 in Wight Contrib. 49 ; WaU. Cat. 8200 ; Wight. Ic. t. 351 ; Dene. I. c. 607 ; T. 

 tenuissima, Wight Sf Am. Contrib. 47 ; Wight le. t. 588 ; Dah. Sf Qibs. Bcmb. 

 Fl. 150. Dene. I. e. 607. Asclepias tenuissima, JRoxb. Sort. £eng. 20, and 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 41. A. dichotoma, JRoUl. in WaU. Cat. 8200 B.C. Ceropegia 

 Decaifineana, Miquel PI. Sohemadk. n. 634. 



Bengal, Soxhwrgh ; Salt Lakes near Calcutta and Sunderbunds, Clarke. Dbccan 

 Peninsula, from Canara southwards. Birma, Wallich. Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 

 Ceylon, hotter parts of the Island, Walker, &c. — Disteib. Java, Borneo. 



Very slender, prostrate or twining. Leaves rarely l\ in. long, very variable in 

 form and breadth, base sometimes cordate, nerves few indistinct ; petiole ^— J in. 

 Flowers rarely ^ in. diam., dark purple; pedicels ^^ in. Pollen-masses subereot. 

 Follicles 3 in. long, poniard-shaped, pericarp membranous. Seeds -^ in., ovate. 



