J-U broad, petioles \ inch long, cymes oxillary generally several together filiform from one-third as long to nearly as long as the leaves j 
flowers 5 merons, calyx-segments unequal rounded quite entire, petals orbicular, capsule nearly globose with 5 rounded lobes. Bedd. 
Flora Sylvatica, part xii- p. lxiv. 
Malabar, slopes of the Nilgtris, Carcoor ghat, at elevations about 3000 feet. 
PLATE No. CLXXI. 
ASCLEPIADACEiE. 
CEROPEGIA FIMBRIIFERA. (Bedd.) Root tuberous depresso-globoee, stem erect minutely pubescent, leaves sessile or 
tapering into a very short peduncle narrow ensiform tapering at the apex, minutely ciliate pubescent above, glabrous beneath except on 
the midrib, but miuutely frosted, 3-6 inches long by 2-4£ lines broad, peduncles axillary $-1 inch long nearly glabrous, umbelliferous 
at the apex about 4 flowered, flowers opening in succession, pedicels nearly as long as the peduncle furnished at the base with a few 
subulate bracts, calyx segments subulate acute \ as long as the corol-tube, corol-tube not much swollen at the base, narrowed upwards, 
segments about as long as the tube with tufts of numerous long purple gland-tipped hairs between the segments which are concealed 
within the corol until the petal*. expand, and then hang down like a fringe round the apex of the tube, outer lobes of the staminal 
corona short Bharply bifid and ciliate, inner lobes long ligulate and adnate to the centre of the onter ones, follicles terete slender 3-4 
inches long, tube of the flower greenish outside deep purple striated within, lobes of corol pale greenish purple, fringe deep purple. 
Bedd. Mad. Lit. Soc. Jonrn. 1861, p. 53. 
Anamallay Hills, on rocky open grassy places on the hills in the vicinity of Toonacadavu, at an elevation of 3000-4000 feet; 
in its wild state always a small erect plant 6-8 inches high only, brought into a rich garden soil it sometimes becomes a creeper, I have 
constautly had it in cultivation, and it is a very showy thing. 
PLATE No. GLXXII. 
CeROPEGIA ENSIFOLIA. (Bedd.) Root tuberous subglobose, stem 
ing at the apex mucronate, furnished above with a few adpreased hairs, below pale ar 
2-3 lines long, peduncles pubescent simply umbelliferous on elongate and paniev 
little longer than the leaves, pedicels pubescent 2-4 lines long furnished with ovate p< 
segments of the calyx glabrous subulate half the length of the corol-tube, corol-tube 
little longer than the tube, exterior lobes of the staminal corona short emarginate 
follicles 6-7 inches long slender terete. 
twining glabrous, leaves very narrow linear taper- 
id glabrous, 4-7 inches long £ inch broad, petioles 
ilate with several umbels, from £ as long as to a 
ointed bracts at their base, flowers greenish white 
ventricose at the base glabrous, lobes as long or a 
ciliate alternate with the inner long ligulate lobes, 
Anamallay hills, rocky places on the Anagoondy range close to Toonacadavu, 3000-3500 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXXIII, 
CeROPEGIA BREV1TUBULATA. (Bedd.) Root tut*™,, subglobose, atoms glabroo, twiuino to. 1, *■ 
bo,beak leave, narrow eu.iform gradual, attenuated into a point at the aoei sud , r over 
eiliate and slightly scabron, (under the leu,) 3j-o inches long by 3-4 lias, broad, petiole, 2-3 ltoeTlZ"' 7 *7 U “™ rT 
long to twice a, long as the petiole,, nmbeiiiferons and braoteated at the apex bract. eabnlat Td T, P a ‘ 8C1 ' Ir ° US fr0m 83 
peduncle very slender and scabrous, calyx segments subulate ecabrously hairy longer than the tube’ l’f ,7 , genCT * 117 longw than U “ 
broad oblong to subglobose, the lobe, very narrow cohering at their L. aid cufdlw 7 7 “'' 0l ' C ° rol “ b °" t '» h,cl ‘ Im ' g ’ 
tube, glabrous, greenish y.i,ow on theoutside deep pnrpiZithC"* * ba ‘ is scarce,y any 
nivent over the gymnetegiunt, foilie.ee deader terete about 5 inches long by 2 3 Zalrld ? P "“ d * bicb « — 
This beautiful rather abnormal species appears to be very rare I W i . 
hills above Amerdy (close to Vellore) at about 1000 feet elevation. I collected th*\2ll\o2 bul 
PLATE No. CLXXIV. 
APOCYNACSL3EL 
ChiLOCARPDS MaLABAEICDS. (Bedd.) A lofty woodv climb.. •. . u 
rather long and fine aeumination, rounded or more or less attenuated at the base, pZi're'ined tT’ lKlV “ ,‘ lliPtiC ° bl<mg WUb ‘ ,udde " 
nearly at right angle, with the midrib and connected by an irre»nlarly waved vei/near tb ’ ”7 ‘" d ™ T prorataenl and 
2 mob., broad, petiole, 4-6-lin„ long, peduncle, axillary and terminal about 3 timesZw by 2 ” ^ 
Cj moee towards the apex, all fnmiebed with a sticky gummy substance, fiower, numerous whitish « T, f d i-«<*oto»Hn»!y 
ous wmtish 2j-4 lines long, bracts minute ciliate, 
