Asclepias. , PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 37 
bels simple, many flowered. Nectaries protruding’ five 
horns at the base. ia 
Nansjera-patsja. Rheed. mal. 9. t. 13. 
A native of the mountainous parts of the Circars ; sit 
flowers during the hot and rainy seasons. 
Stems and larger branches woody, twining, ner 
over trees, &c. to agreat extent. Branchlets twiggy; 
and pendulous. Leaves opposite, oblong, smooth, shin- 
ing, of a very firm, hard, fleshy texture, veinless. Um- 
bels peduncled, lateral, solitary, pendulous with the 
branchlets many flowered. Flowers milk-white, fragrant, 
pendulous also. Pedicels as long as the peduncles. Co. 
rol flat, inside covered with a kind of silky down. Nec- 
tary stellate; O may represent one of its five parts much 
magnified. Anthers remarkably large, reflected over, and 
resting upon the common stigma. If taken out and examin- 
ed before the flower opens, they are then found much 
swelled ; along the sharp edge there is a double line, 
which I conclude forms an opening for the prolific fluid to 
escape at, but in old flowers they are mere collapsed 
membranes, On dividing the plump ones I could readily 
press outa yellow fluid. 
Note. This is the most favorable species I have met 
with for examining the structure, and contents of the an- 
te of this Sapam genus. 
10. ‘he ses RR | | 2s BS 
Leaves petioled, cordate, pointed, smooth; eats isi 
veins red; genitalia sitting on a large annular receptacle. 
hidliceodient: Rheed. mal. 9. t. 7. 
| Teling. Palla gurgi. 
It is a native of moist app te Flowering — the wet 
Stem twining, sianaialt Young shoots round, ears very 
smooth. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, deeply lobed 
atthe base, pointed, entire, smooth on both oe nerve 
