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CALOTROPIS gigantea. 



Curled-jloivered Calotropis 



PENTANDRIA DIQYNU. 



Nat 



ord. Asclepiade^e. Cal. 5-di visas, persistent Cor. mono- 



petala, hypogyna. Anth. biloculares. Pollen ad ckluscentiam antlicrarum 

 coalescens in massas. Styli 2, arete approximati : stigma ambobus com- 

 mune, dilatatum, pentagonum, angulis corpusculiferis. Folliculi 2; altero 

 nunc abortientc : placenta suturse intus applicata, demum libera. Semiua 

 numerosa, imbricata, pendula : albumen tenue. 



Div. Asclepiadeae vera. Massae Pollinis 10, Ircves, per paria, (diversis 

 antheris pertinentia), affixa? stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali, 

 bipartibilibus. Filamenta connata, extus saepius appendiculata. 



CALOl ROPIS. Cor. subcampanulata, tubo angulato, angulis 

 intus saccatis, limbo 5-partito. Corona staminea 5-ph\lia, foliolis 

 cannasformibus, tubo filamentorum longitudinaliter aduatis, basi recurva. 

 Anth. membrana terminate. Masht pollinis compress^, apice attenuato 

 affixae, pendula. Stigma muticum. Fo/lic. ventricosi, Ueves. Sent. 

 comosa. Frutices erect i, glabri. Folia opposita, lata. Umbella w* 

 terpetiotares. Flores speciosi. Brown asclep. 19, 21 & 39. 



C. gigantea ; corollae laciniis reflexis involutis. Brown in Hurt. Kew. 



ed. 2. 2. 78. 



(erc/usi 



st/nonj/mis). Mill. diet. ed. 8. n. IS. Hort. Keza. 1. 205. Hi lid. 



sp.pl. 1. 1264. 

 Ericu. llheed. mal. 2. 53. t. 31. 

 Ericu, americana. Seb. thes. 1. 41. t. 26. f. 1. 



Madorius. Humph, amb. auct. 24. 



Frutex modo orgyalis, tomento deciduo candicans. Folia decussato-di- 



* 



fragilia, obovata acumine brevi, infra 



brevem crassum. Panicula sub cymoso : fastigia?is, laxa, ab inter pctiolos ex- 

 surgens. Cal. parvus, stellatus y appressus. Cor. subuncialis, albo-purpu- 

 rascens, pro I divisa, disco crateroidi-depresso 5-a?igidari, limbo stellatn- 

 rejlexoj laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, obtusidis, posticc involutis, superne obliquatis. 

 Organorum strues inclusa, conica, truncata, molendinata, laminis 5 paritnt 

 profundis subcultrato-compressis aquidistantibus basi inflato-acuminatis Sf 

 exierne versus intortis juxta apicem bicornicidatis cum sutura villosa in dorso 



tubum stamineum cequantibus at que ansularum tot idem ad instar decurrcn- 

 libus. 



•m i 



W 



The opinions of botanists concerning the nature of the sta- 

 mens in the natural family to which our plant belongs, have 

 been long divided. Examined in the expanded flower, 



these organs were uniformly seen after the pollen had been 

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