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culi are united. I have already said, that from this circumstance 

 I am certain that it is the plant which J)r. Roxburgh called the 

 Nerium tinctorium, although he docs not quote the figure of 

 Burman, and although it differs as much from the generic cha- 

 racter of Nerium, as given by Mr. Robert Brown, as the Wrightia 

 does : for in place of having five scales on the mouth of the tube 

 of the corolla, like the Nerium, or ten scales, like the Wrightia, 

 it has numerous filaments, some undivided and others branched. 

 Not having at hand the valuable treatise on Asclepiadea by this 

 excellent botanist, I do not know what he calls this eenus. It 

 is however to these filaments that we must refer (he following 

 words in Burman's description : " Flores staminibui multis in 

 conum acutum collcctis ornati." The anthers form the cone ter- 

 minating the bunch of many filaments, which crown and orna- 

 ment the flower in a very singular manner ; and these are more 

 conspicuous in the living plant than in the drawing, probably 

 taken from a dried specimen. 



In spring (1811) 1 found a tree named in the Hindwi dialect 

 Dud' Koraia, which I took for the Nerium tinctorium, as it pos- 

 sessed this character in its flowers : but, towards the end of 

 the same year, the people who had formerly accompanied me 

 brought a branch with fruit, which they considered as the DueT 

 Koraia ; and it seemed to me also to agree perfectly with the 

 account of the leaves, &c. which I took on the former occasion. 

 The fruit at once showed me that it was different from the Nerium 

 tinctorium ; but I may have been mistaken in supposing that the 

 fruit and flower belonged to the same species : and the name 

 Bud' Koraia is given also to other plants, and especially to the 

 Echites pubescens, which I have just described. I shall however 

 give a description of this Nerium like the indicum of Burman, 

 in order to distinguish it clearly from that plant. Dud' prefixed 

 to the name Koraia signifies milky. 



vol. xiii. 3 y Nerium 



