“30 PENTANDRIA: DIGYNIA: Asciepias. 
dian plants of this order hitherto consigned to Pergula- 
ria, Periploca,Cynanchium, and Apocynum, fallinto this 
genus; nor can I contrive any possibility of placing. 
them elsewhere, so exactly alike are all the essential 
parts of their generic character, which appears to me as. 
completely Gynandrous, as any of the Orchidee. 
Section Ist. ‘Corel rotate. 
1A. gigantea. Willd. 1264. ' 
Shrubby, hoary. Leaves stem clasping, aici ot 
vate, downy underneath. Umbels simple. 
_ Madorus Rumph. amb. 7. t. 14. f.1. (caine . 
Urka is the Sanscrit name of the lilac variety, nat 
Ulurka the name of the white. 
 Ericu. Rheed. mal. 2. t. 31 the lilac, and pase ote 
31 the white. 
Nella-jeberoo, the Telinga name of the lilac Someaail 
variety, and. Zella-jeleereo of the white flowered. Tene 
Akunda, and Swetakund. reer 
- This i is one of the most common, large, ramous annie : 
over. India. It is in flower, and has ripe seed all the year 
round,. It grows every where, but chiefly about old walls, 
hedges, or ruinous places. 
Stem. often as thick as a man’s leg, or thigh, cohaent 
ramous, Bark ash-coloured. Young shoots covered with 
soft woolly down. Leaves opposite, decussate, sub-ses~ 
sile, embracing the stem, broad, wedge-form, bearded on 
the upper side where they end in the petiole ; the upper 
surface pretty smooth ; the under one, covered with a 
white woolly pubescence, from four to six inches long, 
and from two to three broad. Umbels generally simple, 
though sometimes compound, peduncled. Pedunclesround, 
covered with the same woolly substance, as the leayes 
and young shoots, and issuing. alternately 1 from. bet 
the opposite | leaves, nearly erect, half the lengt of ‘the 
bay as We ee 
