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GOMPHOCARPUS FRUTICOSUS. WlLLOW- 

 LEAVED GOMPHOCARPUS. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Cbaracler. 



Afclcpiadea. MaJJa pollinis lseves, jo, pendulae. Corona Ja- 

 wwaw fimplex, 5-phylla: foliolis cucullatis, utrinque unidentatis. 

 Cor. reflexa. Follieuli echinati fpinis innocuis. Brown Afclep. 

 et in Hort. Kew. r 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



GOMPHOCARPUS fruticofus , foliis lineari-lanceolatis gla- 



bris. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 80. 

 ASCLEPIAS/r^Vo/j,- foliis revolutis lanceolatis, caule fruti- 

 AC r C r l ' S £ ec ' PL 2 1 5' W7A/. 1.1271. Thunb. Prod. 47. 

 A^LLEPIAS caule credo fruticofo, foliis lanceolatis, umbellis 



nutamibus, conceptaculis inflatis pilofis. Hort. Cliff. 78 



£T, N , UM ereaum a J ricanum 5 vi »ofc fruBu, falicis folio. 

 Mill Icon. t. 45. IM-m. Parad. 23. /. 24. 



APOCYNUM eredum elatius, falicis angufto folio, folliculis 

 pilofis. Pink. Abn, 36. /. 138. fig. 2. 



Native of die Cape of Good-Hope and an old inhabitant of 

 our greenhoufes, where it thrives well and frequently ripens its 

 leeus. But the plant fhould be removed out of the greenhoufe 

 or the feed-vellels be plucked off before they burft, otherwife 

 the down of the feeds being blown about the houfe, and ad- 

 hering to whatever it touches, is apt to disfigure all the fur- 

 rounding foliage. 



