S| PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Species. 1. A. androsemifolium. 2. cannabinum. 5. 
hypericifolium. These 3 species are very nearly allied to 
each other, and might almost be taken for so many varie- 
ties. They have all hkewise the property of mechanically 
entangling flies by the proboscis which is retained in the 
acute fissure of the anthers, They afford by incision a 
lactescent fluid, which when sufficiently dried exhibits all 
the properties of Gum Elastic or Kaoutchouk, supposed at 
one time to have been the exclusive property of the Urce- 
ola elustica, but common, probably, to most of the lactes- 
cent APociNe&, and perhaps many more of the Ev PHor- 
BIACEA than the Siphonia elastica, of Brazi| and Guiana. 
___ Of this genus there are several other species in South 
Americ Fdia, and the Cape of Good Hope, and 1 species, 
AL venetum, said to be indigenous to the islands of the 
=, Adri ti oan a a bent ae z 
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939. PERIPLOCA. L. 
! Calix minute, 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla ro- 
tate, flat, 5-parted, orifice surrounded with an 
urceolate 5-cleft crown, terminating in 6 fili- 
form appendices or awns. Style 1; stigma capi- 
tate with 5 angles. Follicles 2, ventricose. Seed 
-comose.. : 
Shrubs, many of them climbing; leaves opposite; flow- 
ers subcorymbose, axillary or terminal. : 
_. Spectes, 1. P.greca. Naturalized or indigenous in 
_ the western part of the state of New York. Flowers 
++ brownish, sometimes 7-cleft, segments of the corolla each 
marked with a villous oblong central spot; stigma with 
10 crenatures. ae 
The rest of this genus belongs to India and Africa. 
The P. greca exists in Syria and Siberia, as well as in 
ot North America. 
g ‘olla rotate, 5-parted. Lepanthium} (or 
}) simple, cylindric. subcarnose, 5-lobed, 
Mike inthe plural, flower-ecales, (from Aemss; a scale, 
_ and #09, a flower,) intended to designate generally, the inte- 
__ Hor corolla or pet ariuth of Linnzus. In this place it is 
the ong Mah gest aminea, “*stamineous crown,” of R. 
_ depanthium which existsin the order AscLeriapEx = 
