Asclepias, -PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 43 
Section 2nd. Corols Salver-shaped. 
16. A. tinctoria. R. 
Leaves petioled, long-cordate. Thyrses axillary, soli- 
tary, glomerate; mouth of the Corol hairy. Fructification 
-oblong. 
_ Faroom-akkar. Marsden’s history of Sumatra, page 78. 
The natives of the coast of Coromandel have no name 
for it, the plant being foreign to them. 
The following description, andthe accompanying draw- 
ings were taken from plants raisedin my Garden at Sa- 
mulcota, the original of which Colonel Kyd sent me from 
_.the Company’s Botanical Garden at Calcutta. With me 
it is a large twining shrub and has flowered during the 
hot and rainy seasons, It is quickly and easily propagat- 
_ed by layers, and cutings. I have not seen the pericarp. 
. Stem and branches twining, round. Bark of the woody 
parts ash-coloured ; that of the young parts alittle downy. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, horizontal, or rather reclining, 
cordate, or oblong-cordate, obtuse-pointed, a little downy; 
some-what bubbled, waved ; from four to nine inches long, 
and from two to six broad, There are some small subulate 
glands on the upper side close to the base ; these while 
young yield a waxy substance. Petioles round, from one 
to two inches long. Stipules none. Thyrses solitary, be- 
_ , tween the leaves, peduncled ; as they become old glome- 
rate, from their increasing length. Flowers very numer- 
ous, pedicelled, very small, yellow. Bractes minute. Calyx 
five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, downy. Corol fannel-formed, 
_ tube short, eibone ; mouth nearly shut up with long sil- 
ver-coloured hairs, Border horizontal. Nectary, &c. 
agree well with the general character of the genus, 
‘The leaves of this plant yield Indigo, as mentioned by 
Mr. Marsden, and by Mr. Blake, in the first volume of 
the Asiatic Researches. I have also extracted it fromt 
_. them by hot water. _ The few op ReTiments f ieee 
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