Tas. 6859. 
CALOTROPIS PROCERA. 
Native of Western and Central India. 
Nat. Ord. AScLEPIADEZ.—Tribe CYNANCHEZ. 
Genus Catotroris, Brown; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 754.) 
CaLorroris procera; frutex glaber, inflorescentia appresse lanata, foliis subsessili- 
bus ovatis obovato-oblongis obovatisve acutis basi cordatis, floribus alabastro 
depresso-globosis corymbosis, pedicellis gracilibus, coroll lobis late ovatis 
acutis planis incurvis extus albis intus purpureis, columna staminea brevi 
squamis brevibus bifidis, calcaribus incurvis. 
C. procera, Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 78; Hamilt. in Trans. 
» Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 246; Wight Contrib. p. 53, and Ic, t. 1278; Brand. 
For, Fl. p. 331; Boiss. Fl.. Orient. vol. iv. p. 57; Dene. in DC. Prodr. 
vol. viii. p. 535; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 18; Bot. Reg. t. 1792 ; 
Bentl. et Trim, Med. Pl. (excl. cit. Rheede), t. 176. 
C. Hamiltoni, Wall. Cat. n. 8215; Wight Contrib. p. 53. 
C. Wallichii, Wight Contrib. p. 53; Wall. Cat. n. 8216. 
C. heterophylla, Wall. Cat. n. 8217; Wight Contrib. p. 53. 
Asclepias procera, Willd. Sp. Pl. 1263; Schneevogt Ic. t. 18. 
A. gigantea, Andrews Bot. Rep. t. 271. 
A frequent native of Western and Central India, where 
it is known chiefly for its medicinal properties as ‘* Mudar,” 
from Scinde and the Panjab, eastwards to Behar and 
Bombay, reappearing in Ava, but not inhabiting the 
Deccan, nor the eastern districts of Bengal and the Malayan 
Peninsula and Islands; on the other hand it has an im- 
mense extension westwards, through Affghanistan into 
Persia and Syria, and over many drier parts of N. tropical 
Africa to the Cape de Verd Islands. The inner bark yields 
a strong flax (Mudar and Yercum fibre), from which halters, 
lines, and ropes are made ; the silky hairs of the seeds are 
used to stuff mattresses; the acrid milky juice, mixed with 
salt, is employed to remove hair from hides; pieces of the 
roots are in common use for tooth-brushes, or rather are 
used as tooth-rubbers, and gunpowder charcoal is made of 
the wood. In all these properties and uses it resembles 
C. gigantea (Plate 6862) in greater or less degree, as it 
FEB. Ist, 1886. 
