| : PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
tinct genus (viz. Vineetoxicum, of Persoon.) Asclepias, 
1 as it formerly stood, and as it still in part remains, | 
under the sanction of popular compilers, constitutes 
rather an order, than a particular genus. Several of 
. the genera, however, which were included in Asclepias, 
| Cynanchum, and Periploca, have been very judiciously 
iB separated by Robert Brown, Esq. who properly con- 
siders Asclepias as the type of a Natural Order, Ascue~ 
PIADES.T ‘s 
| 944, *ANANTHERIX.+ ee 
Calix ant Corolla 5-parted. Lepanthium sim- 
| ple, 5-parted, segments compressed, fistulous 
: and impervious, incurved, unconnected with the 
antheridium. rista or corniculum none. Sia- 
mina as in Asclepias. Lateral winged margins 
of the antheridium broad and membranaceous. 
Lobes of the pollinium even, minute, stipe ter- 
minal, very long. Follicles 2. Seeds comose. 
(eee ow rt 
Similar to Asclepias in habit. Stem erect oppo- 
site; flowers umbellate. Nearly allied to the genus Calo- 
tropis of R. Brown. 
\ E. viridis. Asclepias viridis? Walter. Flor. Car. p.107. 
DescriPt. Root perennial. Stem simple, erect, ( a See, 
feet high.) Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, mucronulate, 
sessile, rather thick and minutely pubescent on either side, 
(2 inches long, and about halfan inch broad.) Umbells few- 
flowered, lateral, nearly sessile; pedicells pubescent. Ca- 
: lix 5-parted, persistent, divisions oblong-ovate. Corolla’ 
5-parted, conniyent? § Lepanthium sessile, 
_ } I regret, that Mr. Brown’s publications on thie dul 
ed be seen, that I know of, in the United Sta 
am obliged, rather than culpably omit any gen iar ta 
North Knesica, to propose the following, without being able — 
- gatisfactorily to ascertain how far they may accord with genera 
alread lished by Mr. R. Brown, except what appears in _ 
‘ ang aA ace of ae Hortus Kewensis, “a ii. : : 
_ ¢ From 4; without,and #66912, anawn; the segments of th 
~ lepanthium being, amongst other peculiarities, destitute of awns-_ 
~ § Judging by the only specimen which Ihave of this” 
ogee eaten boeeos never to expand! or very imperfe 
Dr. Baldwyn, from whom I obtained it, called it 2 
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