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Dr. Anderson finding the practice of the black doctors 
much more successful than his own, acknowledged, with. 
his usual candour, that he was not ashamed to take in- © 
struction from them, which he pursued with good suc- 
cess; and collecting a quantity of the plant, which | 
they pointed out to him, he sent a large package of the 
roots to Madras. _It is certainly an article of the Hin- 
doo materia medica highly deserving attention. 
6. A. tunicata, R. 
Leaves long-cordate, smooth. Stipules short-petioled, 
broad-cordate. Umbels simple. Nectary double. 
Periploca tunicata, Willd. 1.1252. Retz. 3. obs, 2. N. 35, 
Hind, Kallia-luta. 
_ Beng. Chagul-pati. 
A pretty large, twining shrub, a native of the hedges, 
&c. Flowering time, the rainy season, Its milky juice 
is particularly gummy. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, with erie round- 
ed, posterior lobes ; pointed, entire, both sides smooth; 
from2 to4inches long. Petioles half the length of the 
leaves, stem-clasping. Stipules two in the same axil, none 
in the other opposite one ; they are short-petioled, broad- 
cordate, pointed, smooth, about an inch long each way. 
Unmbels solitary, small, simple, few-flowered, occupying 
the axil opposite to the stipules. | Flowers small, rusty 
colour. Corol flat. Nectary double. Exterior tubular, 
gibbous, considerably large, and completely embracing 
the inner, and the fructification ; towards the apex plait- 
ed, and contracted ; mouth ten-toothed, the alternate 
ones very large, and emarginate. © Inferior as in the ge- 
_ nus. Follicles lanceolar, flat on the inside, with sharp 
ene, black, deeply and rani furrowed. 
7. A. microphylla, R. 
» Leaves apetntes with a minute point; smooth and 
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