48 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Asclepias. 
bove convex. Nectary, five bodies surrounding the pis- 
tillum, firmly united at the base but tapering from thence 
upwards into a sharp point. A single one detached, and 
veiwed side ways, is seen to be split more than half way 
down, and the exterior lamina is again half two cleft; 
the interior is concave, pressing upon the anthers, (yellow 
scales,) and receives from them a coloured impression. 
Stamens asin the genus. Germs two, ovate. Styles scarce- 
- Jy any ; common stigma turbinate, round the upper part of 
which the five pair of yellow anthers are fixed to its — 
five minute, dark brown, hairy angles. follicles two, .— 
large, oblong, tapering toa point. Seeds numerous, im- 
bricate, ovate, compressed, surrounded with a membra- . 
naceous wing, aud crowned with a long coma, Recepta- 
cle cylindric, spongy, free. 
22 A. pallida, R. 
Leaves long-cordate, smooth. Umbels short-peduncled, 
simple or compound ; tube of the corol gibbous, length of 
the oval genitalia ; segments of the border lincar. Fol- 
licles smooth, lanceolate, 
A native of various parts of India. Flowering time, the 
rainy season. It has a great resemblance to Vahl’s Per- 
gularia purpurea, ‘The flowers are pale yellow, and not 
fragrant, or in a very small degree. : 
Stems ligneous, perennial, twining up and over trees of 
considerable size. Young shoots round, slender, and — 
clothed with small, soft recurved hairs. Leaves opposite, 
petioled, long-cordate, entire, acute, ‘smooth, but soft ; 
three or four inches long, and less than one anda half, or 
twobroad. Petioles an inch long, slender, villous, and 
slightly channelled. Umbels between the leaves, (lateri- 
folius,) very short-peduncled, often compound. Pedicles 
longer than the peduncles, villous. Bractes ensiform, one __ 
under the insertion of each pedicel. Flowers numerous, 
drooping, pale yellow, inodorous. —— five-parted,shor- 
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