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12. PERGULARIA, Linn. 



Woody climbers. Leaves membranous. Flowers greenish, or 

 yellowish-white, rather large, in interpetiolar cymes. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, lobes obloDg, overlapping to the right. Coronal-scales large, 

 membranous, adnate to the back oi the anthers, erect, simple or trans- 

 versely bifid. Pollen-masses erect, or sub-cylindrical, clavate. Stigma 

 capitate, longer than the anther-cells. Follicles ventricose-lanceolate, 

 smooth. Seeds ovate, concave. 



P. pallida, Wight & Arn. Oontrib. 42 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 38 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 334. 



Tropical Himalaya from Murrce (5000 ft.) eastwards to Sikkim and 

 southwards to Bombay and Central India. In the plains of tho 

 Deccan and in the scrub jungles, on the stony hills near Dh^rwdr. Fl. 

 July-Aug. 



P. odoratissima, L. West Coast or Primrose-Creeper is cultivated in 

 gardens. 



13. COSMOSTIGMA, Br. 



A twining shrub. Leaves ovate or cordate. Flowers small^ 

 greenish; in axillary, racemose cymes. Corolla rotate. Coronal-scales 

 adnate to the base of the anthers, erect broad, membranous, truncate 

 or 2-fid. Pollen-masses obovoid, waxy, erect, pedicels long, flexuous. 

 Stigma broad flat, 5-angled. Follicles large, linear -oblong, obtuse, 

 smooth. Seed '75 in. long, broadly ovate^ comose. 



C. racemosum, Wight Contrib. 42; Fl. Br. I. 4. 46 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb.Fl. 151. Jati, M. 



Silhet, Chittagong and the Western ghats from the Konkan south- 

 wards to Ceylon. Throughout the Konkan and North Kanara, often in 

 hedges. Fl. June- Aug. Fr. C. S. 



14. DREGEA, E. Meyer. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves ovate or cordate, acumin£^te. Flowers 

 green in axillary, umbelliform cymes. Corolla rotate. Coronal-scales 

 5, hemispheric, fleshy, adnate to the column, inner angle cuspidate, 

 the tooth incumbent on the anthers. Pollen-masses erect, oblong, 

 shortly pedicelled. Follicles thick, winged or ribbed, often yellow, 

 mealy. Seeds comose. 



D. volubilis, Benth. Gen. PI. 775 ; FL Br. I. 4. 46. Boija viridiflora, 

 Br. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 153. Dori^ ambri^ Jierandori, M. 



Bengal, Assam and the Deccan peninsula from the Konkan southwards 

 to Ceylon. Common on hedges throughout the presidency. Fl. Mch.- 

 May. Fr. C. S. A tall climber. The variety lacuna'' with hoary or 

 mealy pubescence is more common than the sub-erect velvetty form var. 

 angust'ijolia. Yijlds a very strong fibre. 



