In arid plains near the foot of the Neilgherries
flowering March and April. Though frequent in that
locality it is far from being so local in its distribution
as I have repeatedly met with it elsewhere. Through
some error the dissections have not been added which
however is not of much consequence as in this the
structure does not differ in any essential point from
the rest of the genus. But probably another oppor-
tunity of supplying the deficiency will offer.
This species is, in our contributions to Indian
Botany p. 34, referred to C. fimbriata, Wall, further
acquaintance has satisfied me that it is a distinct spe-
cies. It grows in very arid stony soil generally
among tufts of low thorny shrubs in which situations
it not unfrequently attains a height of from 2 f to 3
feet though from 12 to 18 inches is its usual height.
At the base, the stems are always 4 sided and fleshy, the
flowering extremities subterete and attenuated towards
the point. Flowers usually drooping, dull purple, thickly
fimbriated on the margin, follicles slender, about
half a foot in length.
1269 Hoy a parviflora (R. W.,) scandent,lfeave8
approximated, fleshy, glabrous, narrow lanceolate,
blunt pointed : flowers few, generally paired, from a
short thick peduncle; pedicels shorter than the leaves :
corolla glabrous i leaflets of the crown ovate point*
ed, the apex resting on the stigma.
Courtallum flowering September.
The specimens from which the drawing was made
grew in thick shady jungle, thickly matted over a
large stone : as a species ife~seems to approach H- linearis
but the leaves are glabrous and lanceolate in
place of hirsute and linear.
1270 CoSMOSTIGMA ACUMINATUM (R. W.,)
shrubby twining: leaves broad ovate or cordate at the
base acuminate ; sparingly sprinkled on both sides
with short hairs ; the veins especially beneath more
thickly clothed : peduncles a little longer .than the
petiols, rigid hairy; pedicels short, cernuous, stout in
proportion to their length : corolla marked with purple
spots.
Balaghaut Hills near Madras and Ceylon Flowering
April and May.
This seems almost too nearly allied to C. racemo*
sum from which it principally differs, so far as yet
known, in its inflorescence. In this the peduncles
and pedicels are short, rigid and somewhat tomentose;
in that, both are long, slender and nearly glabrous.
The wide difference in geographical distribution is
further in favour of their being kept distinct.
1271 Gymnema D ecaisneana (R. W. G. hir~
sutufn Dec. in D. C. Prod, not W, and A.) twining
tomentose : leaves ovate or ovato-elliptic,subacuminate,
acute hirsute above, sub tomentose beneath : peduncles
axillary, about the length of the petiols : umbels compact,
many flowered : throat of the corolla furnished
with fleshy prominences : filaments without glands at
the base : stigma conical, prolonged beyond the anthers.
Neilgherries, in flower most part of the year. An
extensive climber, not unfrequent in jungles about
Koonoor and Kaitie. Young branches and under
surface of the leaves clothed with short tomentum,
upper surface, calyx and petiols hirsute, flowers pale
yellowish. This species seems to bold an intermediate
place between G. sylvstre, and Q, hirsutum, but
differs from both.
1272. Gymnema htRsutum(W. and A.)voluble r
leaves, ovate or subcordate, hirsute above, tomentose
beneath : umbels short peduncled, many flowered :
tube of the corolla furnished with foliaceous scales,
the filaments with two black fleshy glands at the base,
stigma depressed, scarcely exceeding the anthers.
Subalpine jungles, in the southern provinces of the
Peninsula. Nearly allied to the former in habit and
general appearance, but differs in the interior appendages
of the flowers, in the filaments being much narrower,
and furnished with two obovate black glands at
the base, and lastly, in the flattened stigma of this,
and the conical one of that.
1273. Sarcolobus globosus (Wall.) leaves'
ovate oblong, or oval, shortly acuminated, sprinkled
above with short hairs : umbels few flowered, flowers
conglobatecorolla rotate, introrsely villous '. follicles
large, globose, muricate.
Malacca, Griffith. I am indebted to the late Mr.
Griffith for my specimens of this plant, which he had
named S ’. carinatus. As they are without fruit, and
the two species very much resemble each other in all
other respects, he may be right, but I think not, as
the corolla in this is hairy within, while in S. carina~
tus it is glabrous. The following notes taken when
examining the plant, leave room to suspect that it is
neither.
Calyx 5 parted, corolla rotate* tube crownless, hairy
within,-gynostegium exserted, stigma hemispherical,
mammillose in the centre, dilated on the margin,
forming acute angles on which the free erect corpus-
cules are inserted. Anthers with a broad membranous
margin, nearly covering the stigma: corpus-
cules linear, free except the point of attachment;
pollen masses obovate compressed, attached to the
corpuscule by a long annularly contorted stipe.
Leaves oblong, ovate, subacuminate, acute, nearly
glabrous;
1274. Tylophora parviflora (W. and. A.)
voluble, glabrous, branches slender : leaves ovate,
broad at the base, or slightly attenuate or subcordate,
abruptly acuminated at the apex, acute, glabrous,
somewhat undulated on the margin : petiols longish,
furnished with a minute gland at the origin of the limb :
peduncles shorter than the leaves, flexuose, bearing
two or three filiform pedicels at the flexures : flowers
small, leaflets of the staminal crown broad, elliptic
obtuse: pollen masses ascending: stigma convex :
follicles glabrous.—Dec. in D . C. Prod., 8, p . 607.
Courtallum, Malabar &c., not unfrequent, flower-«
ing during the autumnal months.
1275. Tylophora mollissima (Wall.) voluble,
every where clothed with long soft pubescence: leaves
oval or elliptic, sometimes obscurely cordate, shortly
acuminate, mucronate, acute at the apex : peduncles
twice or thrice the length of the leaves, flexuose, bearing
on the flexures an umbel either sessile or springing
from an oblong receptacle: pedicels filiform;
flowers small; leaflets of the staminal crown truncated,
or rounded at the apex : pollen masses transverse
: stigma obtuse, follicles pubescent.—Dec., in
D. C, Prod., 1. c.
Neilgherries, twining extensively among bushes,
almost always in flower, also Serra Mallie, near Din-
djgul.