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than the petioles, bracts bracteoles calyx and fruit puberul- 

 ous, berry sub-cylindric 3 celled, flowers rose-coloured. 

 A'navmalais, moist vjoods, 2,000 feet 

 ASCLEPIADACE.E. 

 Ceropegia Linn. 



Ceropegia maculata, (R. H. B.) root fibrous, twining 

 steins terete glabrous maculate, leaves ovate acuminate 

 maculate and minutely punctated glabrous, furnished with 

 a minute gland on the lamina just above the insertion of 

 the petiole 2 J to 3 inches long by 1 J to 2 inches broad, 

 petioles very minutely pilose channelled 1 inch long ; 

 peduncles a little shorter than petioles glabrous pedicels 

 umbelled 7-10 as long or longer than peduncles, sepals 

 subulate corol dull greenish purple limb J of the whole, 

 segments ciliated, exterior lobes of stam. cor. of the same 

 length as the inner ones alternate with them and bifid to 

 the base, follicles terete slender. 



A'naimalais in moist woods 2,000 to 3,000 feet. In ap- 

 pearance much like C. candelabrum Linn (which is C. in- 

 termedia of Wight) : the formation of the st. cor. is however 

 verv^ different. 



Ceropegia ensifolia, (R H. B.) root tuberous, stem 

 twining glabrous, leaves very narrow linear tapering at the 

 apex, mucronate, above a few adpressed hairs, below pale 

 glabrous, 4-7 inches long by \ inch broad, very short petio- 

 led : peduncles axillary from \ as long to nearly as long as 

 the leaves, pubescent furnished with several ovate pointed 

 bracts at the apex, umbelliferous, bearing several flowers on 

 simple pedicels and a second peduncle which is again um- 

 belliferous or sometimes much elongated and paniculate, 

 pedicels pubescent, calycine lobes glabrous subulate half 

 the length of the ventricose base of the glabrous corol, seg- 

 ments of corol as long or longer than the tube, exterior 



