Asclepias. PENTANDRIA DIGYNTA. 31 
leaves. Involucres several oblong, pointed scales. Flowers 
large, beautiful, a mixture of rose ee and am 
Calyx five-parted. Corol flat. 
The white flowered variety differs oily from the: tlas 
_ flowered, in the colour of the flowers. 
A large quantity of an acrid, milky juice, five rove 
wounds made in every part of these shrubs; the natives 
apply it to various medicinal purposes; besides which, 
they employ the plant itself, and the preparations thereof 
to cure all kinds of fits ; Epilepsy, Hysterics, Convulsions 
from Coitu immediately after bathing ; also Spasmodic 
disorders such as the locked jaw, Convulsionsin children, 
Paralytical complaints, Cold sweat, Poisonous bites, and 
venereal complaints, Good charcoal for ganpowder issaid 
to be made of it. A fine sort of silky flax is in some parts 
prepared from the bark of the young shoots. <A large, 
beautiful, "inactive: — of — feetls se ‘the 
leaves. ™ 
2. A. sussuela. R. 
Succulent and smooth, Leaves petioled, oblong, point- 
ed succulent smooth. Peduncles few-flowered. Calyx 
five-leaved:  Corols flat, eed shhatese3 2 et 
short, and obconical, si hal 
Corona Ariodnes. Rumph. dnd? 5. t. 182. . 
‘A native of the Moluccas and by far the largest flow- 
ett species I have yet met with; when io 2 nded it is — 
nearly three inches in’ ane CE aS GENS ie Se RTE ° 
ees § a 
“8. A. acida. R. = 
Leafless. Umbellets terminal atthe: aiaied 
‘Soma-lata in Sanscrit, rendered Soon by Wilkinsin his” : 
translation of the Bhagavut Geeta, p. 80, and’ mesg a2. 
- Cynanchium viminale. Wi Ud. ni ssn | 
, Riba Tiga-tshivitiobdoo. “” 
