Asclepias. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 39. 
12. A. pseudosarsa, R. 
Shrubby, twining, filiform. Leaves from ovate to li- 
near, smooth, shining. Spikes axillary, sessile, imbricate. 
Follicles linear. 
Ceropegia tenuifolia, Linn. Mant. 346. 
Periploca indica, Willd, 1, 1251. when broad leaved, 
Periploca emetica, the wild one. 1251, Retz. obs. 2. No. 
34. when narrow leaved. 
Naru-nindi. Rheed. mal, 10, t. 34. very ane 
Ununta-mool of the Hindoos when the leaves are broad, 
and Sada-boari when narrow. 
Palla-soucandee is the Telinga name for the narrow 
leaved parts, and Ghodie soucandee for the broad leaved. 
It is one of the most common, twining shrubs on the 
Coast, Bengal, &c. grows equally well in every unculti- 
vated soil, and in all situations. Flowers during the wet 
season. a it 
Root long, and slender with fow vuinameations, cover- 
ed with rust coloured bark, which possesses a peculiar- 
ly pleasant sort of fragrance, whether fresh or dried. 
Stems twining, diffuse, or climbing, woody, slender, gene- 
rally from the thickness of a goose quill, to that of a crow 
quill, pretty smooth, Leaves opposite, short petioled, 
shape very various ; on the young shoots that issue from 
old routs, and lie on the earth they are linear, acute, and 
striated down the middle with white; on the superior, 
and old branches, they are generally broad-lanceolate, 
even, sometimes ovate or oval; all are entire, smooth, 
shining, and of a firm texture, the length and breadth very 
various. Stipules four-fold, small, on each side of each 
petiole, caducous. Racemes axillary, sessile, imbricated 
' with flowers, and then with scales like bractes Flowers 
small ; outside green, inside a deep purple. Calyx divisi- 
ons acute. Corol flat ; divisions oblong, pointed, inside _ 
rugose. Nectary, stamens, and pistil as in Fe oes 
Follicles long, slender, spreading. 
