Asclepias. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. AL 
Teling. Doodee-palla. 
Tt is a twining perennial ; growing in hedges, and a- 
mongst bushes on the banks of water courses, pools, &c. 
Leaves deciduous during the dry season. In flower and 
foliage during the rainy season. fi onl 
Root of filiform fibres. Stem and branches numerous, 
twining, round, smooth, running over bushes of conside- 
rable size. Leaves opposite, spreading, short-petioled, li- 
near, tapering to a fine point, round at the base, entire, 
smooth, from four to six inches long, and about three 
eighths of an inch broad, Racemes lateral, long, few- 
flowered. Flowers large, beautiful, white, with a small 
tinge of rose-colour, and striated with purple veins, in- 
odorous, Nectary, and Stamens as in the genus. Follicles 
oblong, inflated. 
On this Coast 1 do not find the natives ever eat it, or 
apply it to any purpose whatever ; cattle however eat it. 
Its elegant flowers render it well deserving of a place in 
the flower Garden. Every part abounds with milk, — 
its names in various Asiatic languages. 
‘14, A. tenuissima. R. 
Filiform, smooth. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Umbels 
proliferous, Genitalia a truncated cone. 
A native of Bengal. 
~ Stem perennial, simple, of several yards in length, 
very smooth, about as thick as a pack thread. Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, base rather 
broad, and somewhat cordate, entire, plain, smooth on 
both sides; almost veinless; length from one to two inches, 
and a little more than a quarter ofan inch broad, Petioles 
nearly round, about as long as the leaves are broad.*Um- 
bels solitary, from between the insertion of each pair of 
leaves, proliferous. Peduncles diverging, round, smooth, 
“3 Siiform. Flowers small, of i dull poe colour. — Calyx 
