38 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. _—_ Assclepias. 
and veins red ; on the upper side near the base are some 
small bristly points ; from three to five inches long, and 
two or three broad. Petioles about two inches long, 
Umbels lateral, peduncled, simple, few flowered. Flow- 
ers large, the colour a beautiful mixture of red, green 
and white. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets ovate. Corol 
flat. Nectary, its base forms a large, fleshy, somewhat 
five-sided ring. Filaments twisted. Anthers very long, 
they hang down on the sides of the common stigma, which 
is here very large, of an oval form, composed of five 
lobes, with a pentagonal crown. 
BA. A. miberoalt R. | 
Bark of the woody parts suberose. Leaves petioled, 
cordate, downy. Umbels simple. .Corols downy. Fruc- 
tification globular. Anthers hornletted. 
Cynanchium reticulatum. Willd. 1. 1258. | 
A large, twining, perennial species common in hedges, 
&c. over most parts of the coast of Coromandel. It flow- 
ers during the latter parts of the rains, and the cold sea- 
son. 
Stem, and old branches woody, twining; bark light ash- 
coloured, suberous, and cracking deep in various direc- 
tions ; young parts slightly downy. Leaves opposite, pe- 
tioled, oblong, cordate, entire, acute, downy, particularly 
when young ; two or three inches long, and one and a 
half or two inches broad. Petioles round, one half length 
of the petioles. | Umbels lateral, simple, peduncled, 
about the length of the petioles, Flower numerous, 
small, star-form, greenish-yellow, scentless. Corol ; tube 
scarcely any ; segments of the border spreading ; margins 
revolute, downy: Nectarial sheath surrounding the fruc- 
_ tification, asin the genus, the whole small, and globu- 
lar, Anthers’ ‘oval, Beiariaag bent up over the common 
stigma. | 
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