1792 
* CALOTRÓPIS procéra. 
Tall Calotropis. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. AscLEPIapE, R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System 
ef Botany, p. 210.) 
CALOTROPIS.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 58. 
C. procera ; corolle laciniis patulis. R. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 78. 
Asclepias procera. Hort. Kew. 1. 305. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1263. 
Asclepias gigantea. Andr. Reposit. t. 271. 
Beidelsar. Prosp. Alp. egypt. cap. 25. c. iv. 
“This plant was raised in the garden of Sir Charles 
Lemon, Bart., M. P., at Carclew, in June 1832, from seeds 
collected by Lieut. James Sulivan, R.N., at Porto Praya, 
St. Jago. “In the note which accompanied the seed it is 
described as being ““ a shrub or small tree growing from 10 
to 20 feet high, and flowering in clusters at the ends of the 
branches. Leaves six inches long. Pod about the size of 
the leaf, called by the natives calmady.” With us it 
appears to be a tender, lactescent, upright growing, deci- 
duous shrub, requiring the constant heat of the stove, and 
thriving in a soil composed of sandy loam, and decayed + 
vegetable earth. It flowered in April. 
‘ Stem round, pale green, and together with the leaves 
thickly covered with hoary pubescence which rubs off on 
r being touched. Leaves opposite, decussate, spreading, those 
| of the stem obovate, acuminate, about five inches long and 
two and a half inches broad. At the extremity of the shoots 
| * Literally ‘beautifully twisted,” apparently in reference to the corolla of 
C, gigantea, 
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