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8. C. acuminata. Willd. 1.1276. R. Corom, pl.1. N. 8. 
Root tuberous, perennial. Stems Se twining. 
Leaves ensiform, succulent. 
Teling. Commoo-madu. 
ASCLEPIAS. 
’ Contorted. Calyx five-toothed. Corol rotate, or sal- 
ver-shaped. Nectary subcylindric, embracing the organs 
of the fructification. Anthers five pairs, attached to the 
five angles of the common stigma. follicles two. Seeds 
‘ comose. (apis tixe es 
The East Indian plants of this extensive family, be- 
longing to the natural order Apocinea of Jussieu, are, 
“with the exception of two or three species, uniformly 
twining perenials. The Leaves always opposite ; inflo- 
rescence sub-axillary or rather laterifolius umbels. “The 
Calyx and Corol five-parted. The nectary a subcylindric 
pentagon, more or less deeply divided into five, lanceo- 
late, lamellated segments. The organs of the fructifica- 
tion consist of five pair, of one-celled anthers and as I 
cannot subscribe to Brown’s opinion, I must say at all 
periods attached to the circumference, or when angular, to 
the five angles of the common stigma, and furnished with 
a fecundating fluid, instead of pollen. The germs two, 
or very perfectly two-lobed, superior, each crowned with 
its proper style, but the two are often pretty rn 
ed, and end in a single large, roundish, or pentagonal, 
spongy body, which I call the common stigma, (Jacquin’s 
tuberculum staminiferum, and Cavanille’s radix stamine- 
um) and gives the germs nearly as great a claim to t he 
first order of this class, as the other parts of the pistil- 
jum do to the second. ‘This body is in some parts 
firmly attached to the interior lamella of the five seg- 
ments of the nectary, and that organ being united to th 
Corol, the whole falls off in one body. Several of our In- 
