Asclepias. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA, 45 
three inches long. Petioles nearly as long as the leaves. 
Umbels lateral, long-peduncled, sub-erect, often com- 
pound, many-flowered. Involucres few and minute. Flow- 
ers middle sized, of a dirty whitish colour, long-pedicelled, 
very fetid. Coroltubular; tube not quite half the length 
of the nectary ; apexes of the five divisions long, very 
acute, and spirally incurved over the common stigma. 
Anthers spreading obliquely under the margins of the 
common stigma. Follicles hedge-hogged. 
18, A. geminata, R. 
Leaves ovate, downy. Umbels simple in pairs from 
alternate axils. Nectary a simple, five-toothed tube ; 
common stigma subglobular. 
Beng. Choota-doodee-luta, 
This is also a large twining woody plant; a native of 
hedges, Flowering time the same as that of the last 
species. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate, pointed ; 
at the base a little cordate, entire, downy, from two to 
three inches long. Umbels lateral, simple, globular, 
paired, short-peduncled, thewhole being little more than 
the length of the petioles. Flowers numerous, small, 
yellow, with the globular apex of the white common 
stigma projecting in the centre; it looks like a fine pearl 
set in gold, Calyx five-leaved. Corol ; tubular, downy ; 
on the inside of the tube are five elevated ridges ; divisi- 
ons of the border spreading, triangular, acute. Nectarial 
sheath very simple, its apex reaches very little above 
the base of the common stigma, and is five-toothed. 
Anthers erect, aflixed round the base of the common 
stigma, which is large, obovate, and two-thirds above 
the nectary. 
19, A. montana, R. s 
Leaves oblong, pointed, smooth, Umbels lateral, sole : 
ry, — Common stigma globular, — : wee eee 
