Brachylepis.^ xcv. asclepiade^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



4. BRA.C«YXiEFXS, Wight 8f Am. 



A pubescent or tomentose twininpf shrub. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, 

 villous, in terminal or axillary dicbotomous cymes. Sepals ovate, glandular 

 within. Corolla rotate, 5-cleft ; lobes short, overlapping and twisted to the 

 right. Coronal scales 5, broad, membranous, close to the stamens. Anthers 

 sessile, cohering in a fleshy ring, tips acute conniving ; pollen-masses in pairs 

 in each cell, granular ; appendages of the corpuscles orbicular. Stigma 5- 

 angled, top flat. Follicles divaricate, acuminate, thick, smooth. 



B. nervosa, Wight Sr Am. Contrib. 64 ; Wight Ic. t. 1284 ; Hone, in DC. 

 P)-odr. viii. 495 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 56. — ^Tylophora sp., Miguel in PI. Hohen. 

 n. 1389. 



NiLGHERRT Mts., alt. 5-7500 ft., common, Wight, &c. 



Leaves 3-4 by 1-2 in., elliptic or ovate, acuminate, base acute or rounded, 

 coriaeeoxis, glabrous and glossy above; nerves 8-10 pairs, spreading and arched; 

 petiole stout, ^ in. Cymes villous, peduncles and pedicels short, stout; bracts 

 persistent ; bracteoles numerous, imbricate. Corolla ^ in. diam., green outside, 

 purple within, lobes ovate. Follicles not seen. 



5. VTXiEBXA, BeMome. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves scattered, narrow, subcrenulate. Flowers minute, 

 towards the ends of the long branches of terminal peduncled dichotomous 

 cymes. Sepals rounded, glandular within. Corolla subrotate, 6-cleft, lobes 

 overlapping and twisted to the right. Coronal scales 5, small, opposite and 

 close to the stamens. Filaments short ; anthers ovate, conniving over and adnate 

 to the stigma ; pollen-masses in pairs in each cell, granular ; appendages of the 

 corpuscles dilated. Stigma convex. Fruit unknown. 



17. salicifolia, Beddome mss. 



Deccan Pbninsuia. ; Anamallay Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



Branches stout. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 7-9 by ^-1 in., 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, margin thickened waved or orenulate, 

 base very acute ; nerves many, very slender, nearly horizontal, reticulations fine ; 

 petiole 1-2 in. Cymes 4-6 in., sparingly branched ; bracts on the terminal branches 

 numerous, i-Tibricate, obtuse ; pedicels short. Corolla :jg in. diam., lobes ovate, acute. 



6 FIirZ.AYSONXA, Wall. 



A lofty glabrous climber. Leaves opposite. Flowei's in 2-3-chotomous 

 axillary cymes, yellowish and purple. Sepals rounded, short. Corolla rotate, 

 6-cleffc ; lobes ovate, overlapping to the right. Coremcd scales 5, close to the 

 stamens, filiform. Stamens on the throat of the corolla, filaments slender ; 

 anthers adnate by the middle to the stigma, beardless, tip membranous inflexed 

 acute. Pollenv-masses in pairs in each cell, granular ; tips of the corpuscles 

 slightly dilated. Stigma 6-angled, top flat. Follicles divaricate, turgid, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, 1-3 winged, tip with a revolute beak. Seeds margined 

 with soft retrorse hairs, 



r. obovata. Wall. PI. As. Bar. ii. 48, t. 162, and Cai. 4466 ; Wight Sr 

 Atn. Contrib. 65 ; Wight III. t. 182, f. 5 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 70, and Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 407 ; Dene, in DC. Prodr. viii. 494. Guma obovata, Ham. in Voigt Sort. 

 Sub. Calc. 544. 



