26 XCT. ASCLErUDEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gynanchum. 



small deltoid-ovate or -lanceolate from a broadly cordate base, finely acuminate, 

 sinus open, peduncles very long, flowers corymbose, corolla pubescent, corona 

 short 5-lobed lobes rounded with a tubercle on their inner faces. Endotropis 

 Roy lei, Dene, in DC. Pi-odr. viii. 547. 



Western Himalaya ; Kunawiir, Boyle, Jacquemont, &e. 



A span to a foot high, branches flexiious. Leaves 1-1 J in., pubescent on both 

 surfaces; petiole \-\ in. Peduncles sometimes twice as long as the leares, pedicels 

 slender; flowers numerous, -|-^ in. diam. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla pubescent 

 ■within and without. Follicles 2 in. long, fusiform, turgid, puberulous. Seeds \ in. 

 long, orbicular-obovate, flat. 



16. C. Jacquemontlanum, Dene, in Jaequem. Voy. Bat. 106, t. 112 ; 

 nearly glabrous, suberect, much branched, leaves small lanceolate from a 

 broadly cordate base finely acuminate, sinus open, peduncles very long, flowers 

 corymbose, corolla pubescent within only, corona equalling the coroUa 5-cleft, 

 lobes subulate-lanceolate entire or cleft with a small flat process below them. 

 0. humile, Serb. Falconer. Endotropis Jacquemontii, Dene, in DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 547. 



Western Himalaya ; Kashmir, Falconer, Jacquemont. 



A span to 2 ft. high. Braiichps slender, spreading, or erect from a woody stock. 

 Leaves 1-1^ by ^-| in., sometimes faintly puberulous ; petiole J-g- in. Peduncles 

 sometimes twice as long as the leaves ; pedicels slender ; flowers numerous, ^-^ in. 

 diam. Sepals ovate. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. Heyneana, Boem. ^ Soh. Syst. vi. 101 ; Bene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 549. Periploca 

 reticulata. Both. thss. — May be C. CaUialata. 



C. PEDUNOULATUM, Thunb. Obs. in Cynanch. 5 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 548, 

 from Ceylon is undeterminable. 



C. TOMENTOSUM, Lamk., is probably Tylophora asthmaiica, according to Wight 

 XContrih. 61, in note). 



27. SABCOSTEIKCniA, Br. 



Trailing leafless jointed shrubs with pendulous branches. Cymes terminal 

 or at the nodes, umbelliform ; peduncle clavate. Flowers small. Calyx 5-fld. 

 Corolla rotate, 5-fld ; lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Corona cup- 

 shaped, membranous, adnate to the base of the column, 10-crenate or -lobed, 

 the lobes opposite the stamens bearing large fleshy processes which are adnate 

 to the backs of the anthers. Column short ; anther-tip indexed ; pollen-masses 

 one in each cell, pendulous, slender, waxy. Stiyma conical or shortly fusiform. 

 Follicles smooth. Seeds comose. — Disteib. Species 5 or 6; Asiatic, African, 

 and Australian. 



I am unable to determine the described species of this genus from dried specimens. 

 There are probably differences in the fruit and seeds between the four supposed 

 Indian ones, but I have no sufiicieut materials to verify this, and those may be 

 reduced to two. 



1. S. brevisti^ma, Wight S^ Am. Contrib. 59 ; umbels terminal, flowers 

 whitish, column very short, inner processes of the corona almost concealing the 

 anthers, stigma very shortly conical, follicles slightly diverging thinly coriaceous 

 narrowed to the base. Wight Ic. t. 595 ; ? Wall. Cat. 8233 ; Ddz 8f Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 149; Dene, tn DC. Prodr. viu. 538, and in Jaequem. Voy. Bot. 107, 

 t. 113. Aselepias acida, Roi.b. Sort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 31. A. aphyUa, 

 Roxb. mss. ^ "^ 



