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PERIPLOCA GR^ECA. COMMON PERIPLOCA. 



Class and Order. 



Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Character. 



Asclepiadea. Massa Pollinis granulosa?, 5. Filam. dis- 

 tincta. Cor. rotata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Periploca grceca; floribus interne hirsutis terminalibus. 



Hort. Keio. ed. alt. 2. p. 75. Willd. Sp. PL 1. p. 1248. 



Lin. Sp. PL 309. Jacq. Misc. 1. p. 11. t. 1. / 2. 



Lam. III. t. 177. Kniph. Cent. 2. Schmidt Arb. 1. 



p. 46. t. 46. Lam. EncycL 5. p. 187. Smith Flor. 



grceca. 1. p. 165. Ic. 249. 

 Periploca altera. Dod. pempt. 408. /. 2. 

 Periploca serpens angustiore folio. Lob ic. 631. 

 Periploca repens angustifolia. Ger. emac. 902. f. 1 . quoad - 



figuram. 

 Apocynum folio oblongo. Bauh. Pin. 303. 

 Apocynum 2, angustifolium. Clus. Hist. 1. p. 125. 

 Apocynum repens. Cam. Epit. 842. Park. Theatr. 386. 



/. 2. 

 Apocynum give Periploca scandens folio longo, flore pur- 



purante. Bauh. Hist. 2. p. 133. Raj. Hist. 2. p. 1087. 



Periploca grceca is a handsome climber, which under 

 favourable circumstances will extend its branches from 

 thirty to forty feet; and was once in great request for 

 covering trellis work, arbours, &c. but is now more 

 generally planted against a pole or the trunk of a tree ; 

 in the former case when it has overtopped its support and 

 formed a spreading head with the branches entwined to- 

 gether, it makes a very handsome appearance, especially 



when 



